Nanobody-based products as research and diagnostic tools

T De Meyer, S Muyldermans, A Depicker - Trends in biotechnology, 2014 - cell.com
Since the serendipitous discovery 20 years ago of bona fide camelid heavy-chain
antibodies, their single-domain antigen-binding fragments, known as VHHs or nanobodies …

Nanobodies: chemical functionalization strategies and intracellular applications

D Schumacher, J Helma, AFL Schneider… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Nanobodies can be seen as next‐generation tools for the recognition and modulation of
antigens that are inaccessible to conventional antibodies. Due to their compact structure and …

Nanobodies and recombinant binders in cell biology

J Helma, MC Cardoso, S Muyldermans… - Journal of Cell …, 2015 - rupress.org
Antibodies are key reagents to investigate cellular processes. The development of
recombinant antibodies and binders derived from natural protein scaffolds has expanded …

Nanobody-derived nanobiotechnology tool kits for diverse biomedical and biotechnology applications

Y Wang, Z Fan, L Shao, X Kong, X Hou… - International journal …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Owing to peculiar properties of nanobody, including nanoscale size, robust structure, stable
and soluble behaviors in aqueous solution, reversible refolding, high affinity and specificity …

Under the microscope: single-domain antibodies for live-cell imaging and super-resolution microscopy

B Traenkle, U Rothbauer - Frontiers in immunology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Single-domain antibodies (sdAbs) have substantially expanded the possibilities of
advanced cellular imaging such as live-cell or super-resolution microscopy to visualize …

Camelid single-domain antibodies: A versatile tool for in vivo imaging of extracellular and intracellular brain targets

T Li, M Vandesquille, F Koukouli, C Dudeffant… - Journal of Controlled …, 2016 - Elsevier
Detection of intracerebral targets with imaging probes is challenging due to the non-
permissive nature of blood-brain barrier (BBB). The present work describes two novel single …

Nanobody-based probes for subcellular protein identification and visualization

MA De Beer, BNG Giepmans - Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Understanding how building blocks of life contribute to physiology is greatly aided by protein
identification and cellular localization. The two main labeling approaches developed over …

Live imaging of endogenous protein dynamics in zebrafish using chromobodies

P Panza, J Maier, C Schmees, U Rothbauer… - …, 2015 - journals.biologists.com
Chromobodies are intracellular nanoprobes that combine the specificity of antibodies with
the convenience of live fluorescence imaging in a flexible, DNA-encoded reagent. Here, we …

Real-time analysis of epithelial-mesenchymal transition using fluorescent single-domain antibodies

J Maier, B Traenkle, U Rothbauer - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Vimentin has become an important biomarker for epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), a
highly dynamic cellular process involved in the initiation of metastasis and cancer …

Recent progress in generating intracellular functional antibody fragments to target and trace cellular components in living cells

PD Kaiser, J Maier, B Traenkle, F Emele… - … Et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2014 - Elsevier
In biomedical research there is an ongoing demand for new technologies, which help to
elucidate disease mechanisms and provide the basis to develop novel therapeutics. In this …