Comparative analyses of immunoglobulin genes: surprises and portents

MF Flajnik - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2002 - nature.com
The study of immunoglobulin genes in non-mouse and non-human models has shown that
different vertebrate groups have evolved distinct methods of generating antibody diversity …

From rabbit antibody repertoires to rabbit monoclonal antibodies

J Weber, H Peng, C Rader - Experimental & molecular medicine, 2017 - nature.com
In this review, we explain why and how rabbit monoclonal antibodies have become
outstanding reagents for laboratory research and increasingly for diagnostic and therapeutic …

Kabat database and its applications: 30 years after the first variability plot

G Johnson, TT Wu - Nucleic acids research, 2000 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Kabat Database was initially started in 1970 to determine the combining site of
antibodies based on the available amino acid sequences at that time. Bence Jones proteins …

Emergence and evolution of functional heavy-chain antibodies in Camelidae

KE Conrath, U Wernery, S Muyldermans… - Developmental & …, 2003 - Elsevier
Antibodies of jawed-vertebrates are composed of paired heavy (H) and light (L) polypeptide
chains. Surprisingly, the sera of camelids, nurse shark and wobbegong shark, and possibly …

Rabbit immune repertoires as sources for therapeutic monoclonal antibodies: the impact of kappa allotype-correlated variation in cysteine content on antibody libraries …

M Popkov, RG Mage, CB Alexander… - Journal of molecular …, 2003 - Elsevier
The rabbit immune repertoire has long been a rich source of diagnostic polyclonal
antibodies. Now it also holds great promise as a source of therapeutic monoclonal …

B cell and antibody repertoire development in rabbits: the requirement of gut-associated lymphoid tissues

RG Mage, D Lanning, KL Knight - Developmental & Comparative …, 2006 - Elsevier
The antibody repertoire of rabbits has interested immunologists for decades, in part because
of the ease with which large quantities of high affinity antibodies can be obtained in serum …

Fundamental characteristics of the immunoglobulin VH repertoire of chickens in comparison with those of humans, mice, and camelids

L Wu, K Oficjalska, M Lambert, BJ Fennell… - The Journal of …, 2012 - journals.aai.org
Examination of 1269 unique naive chicken VH sequences showed that the majority of
positions in the framework (FW) regions were maintained as germline, with high mutation …

Systematic characterization and comparative analysis of the rabbit immunoglobulin repertoire

JJ Lavinder, KH Hoi, ST Reddy, Y Wine, G Georgiou - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Rabbits have been used extensively as a model system for the elucidation of the mechanism
of immunoglobulin diversification and for the production of antibodies. We employed Next …

Development of the antibody repertoire in rabbit: gut‐associated lymphoid tissue, microbes, and selection

D Lanning, X Zhu, SK Zhai, KL Knight - Immunological reviews, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Rabbits generate their antibody repertoire in three stages. First, a neonatal repertoire is
generated by B lymphopoiesis in fetal liver and bone marrow and is limited by preferential …

A robust high throughput platform to generate functional recombinant monoclonal antibodies using rabbit B cells from peripheral blood

S Seeber, F Ros, I Thorey, G Tiefenthaler, K Kaluza… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
We have developed a robust platform to generate and functionally characterize rabbit-
derived antibodies using B cells from peripheral blood. The rapid high throughput procedure …