Exploring cellular biochemistry with nanobodies

RW Cheloha, TJ Harmand, C Wijne… - Journal of Biological …, 2020 - ASBMB
Reagents that bind tightly and specifically to biomolecules of interest remain essential in the
exploration of biology and in their ultimate application to medicine. Besides ligands for …

30 years of nanobodies–an ongoing success story of small binders in biological research

DI Frecot, T Froehlich… - Journal of Cell Science, 2023 - journals.biologists.com
ABSTRACT A milestone in the field of recombinant binding molecules was achieved 30
years ago with the discovery of single-domain antibodies from which antigen-binding …

Current status and future expectations of nanobodies in oncology trials

T De Pauw, L De Mey, JM Debacker… - Expert Opinion on …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Monoclonal antibodies have revolutionized personalized medicine for cancer in
recent decades. Despite their broad application in oncology, their large size and complexity …

Visualizing endogenous Rho activity with an improved localization-based, genetically encoded biosensor

EK Mahlandt, JJG Arts, WJ van der Meer… - Journal of Cell …, 2021 - journals.biologists.com
Rho GTPases are regulatory proteins, which orchestrate cell features such as morphology,
polarity and movement. Therefore, probing Rho GTPase activity is key to understanding …

Nanobodies–Little helpers unravelling intracellular signaling

TR Wagner, U Rothbauer - Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 2021 - Elsevier
The identification of diagnostic and therapeutic targets requires a comprehensive
understanding of cellular processes, for which advanced technologies in biomedical …

Development of a V5-tag–directed nanobody and its implementation as an intracellular biosensor of GPCR signaling

M Zeghal, K Matte, A Venes, S Patel, G Laroche… - Journal of Biological …, 2023 - ASBMB
Protein–protein interactions (PPIs) form the foundation of any cell signaling network.
Considering that PPIs are highly dynamic processes, cellular assays are often essential for …

An inside job: applications of intracellular single domain antibodies

E Soetens, M Ballegeer, X Saelens - Biomolecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Sera of camelid species contain a special kind of antibody that consists only of heavy
chains. The variable antigen binding domain of these heavy chain antibodies can be …

Affimers and nanobodies as molecular probes and their applications in imaging

P Cordell, G Carrington, A Curd, F Parker… - Journal of Cell …, 2022 - journals.biologists.com
Antibodies are the most widely used, traditional tool for labelling molecules in cells. In the
past five to ten years, many new labelling tools have been developed with significant …

A novel nanobody precisely visualizes phosphorylated histone H2AX in living cancer cells under drug-induced replication stress

E Moeglin, D Desplancq, A Stoessel, C Massute… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary γ-H2AX, a phosphorylated variant of histone H2A, is a widely used
biomarker of DNA replication stress. To develop an immunological probe able to detect and …

Intracellular VHHs to monitor and modulate GPCR signaling

P Raynaud, C Gauthier, V Jugnarain… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Single-domain antibody fragments, also known as VHHs or nanobodies, have opened
promising avenues in therapeutics and in exploration of intracellular processes. Because of …