Nanobodies: robust miniprotein binders in biomedicine

JYJ Kim, Z Sang, Y Xiang, Z Shen, Y Shi - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2023 - Elsevier
Variable domains of heavy chain-only antibodies (VHH), also known as nanobodies (Nbs),
are monomeric antigen-binding domains derived from the camelid heavy chain-only …

Human serum albumin binders: a piggyback ride for long-acting therapeutics

A Ullah, G Shin, SI Lim - Drug Discovery Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•A variety of albumin-binding moieties (ABMs) have been developed for half-life
extension of short-lived drugs.•Various drugs can incorporate a selected ABM for in situ HSA …

[HTML][HTML] Comprehensive structure and functional adaptations of the yeast nuclear pore complex

CW Akey, D Singh, C Ouch, I Echeverria, I Nudelman… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) mediate the nucleocytoplasmic transport of
macromolecules. Here we provide a structure of the isolated yeast NPC in which the inner …

Potent neutralizing nanobodies resist convergent circulating variants of SARS-CoV-2 by targeting diverse and conserved epitopes

D Sun, Z Sang, YJ Kim, Y Xiang, T Cohen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Interventions against variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2) are urgently needed. Stable and potent nanobodies (Nbs) that target the receptor …

Assessing antibody and nanobody nativeness for hit selection and humanization with AbNatiV

A Ramon, M Ali, M Atkinson, A Saturnino… - Nature Machine …, 2024 - nature.com
Monoclonal antibodies have emerged as key therapeutics. In particular, nanobodies, small,
single-domain antibodies that are naturally expressed in camelids, are rapidly gaining …

Inhalable Nanobody (PiN-21) prevents and treats SARS-CoV-2 infections in Syrian hamsters at ultra-low doses

S Nambulli, Y Xiang, NL Tilston-Lunel, LJ Rennick… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Globally, there is an urgency to develop effective, low-cost therapeutic interventions for
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). We previously generated the stable and ultrapotent …

NanoNet: Rapid and accurate end-to-end nanobody modeling by deep learning

T Cohen, M Halfon… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Antibodies are a rapidly growing class of therapeutics. Recently, single domain camelid
VHH antibodies, and their recognition nanobody domain (Nb) appeared as a cost-effective …

Highly synergistic combinations of nanobodies that target SARS-CoV-2 and are resistant to escape

FD Mast, PC Fridy, NE Ketaren, J Wang, EY Jacobs… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants threatens current vaccines and therapeutic
antibodies and urgently demands powerful new therapeutics that can resist viral escape. We …

Recent advances in predicting protein–protein interactions with the aid of artificial intelligence algorithms

S Li, S Wu, L Wang, F Li, H Jiang, F Bai - Current Opinion in Structural …, 2022 - Elsevier
Protein–protein interactions (PPIs) are essential in the regulation of biological functions and
cell events, therefore understanding PPIs have become a key issue to understanding the …

Progress and challenges in mass spectrometry-based analysis of antibody repertoires

I Snapkov, M Chernigovskaya, P Sinitcyn… - Trends in …, 2022 - cell.com
Humoral immunity is divided into the cellular B cell and protein-level antibody responses.
High-throughput sequencing has advanced our understanding of both these fundamental …