S Muyldermans - Annual review of animal biosciences, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Unique, functional, homodimeric heavy chain–only antibodies, devoid of light chains, are circulating in the blood of Camelidae. These antibodies recognize their cognate antigen via …
S Muyldermans - The FEBS journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A nanobody (Nb) is a registered trademark of Ablynx, referring to the single antigen‐binding domain of heavy chain‐only antibodies (HCAbs) that are circulating in Camelidae. Nbs are …
C McMahon, AS Baier, R Pascolutti… - Nature structural & …, 2018 - nature.com
Camelid single-domain antibody fragments ('nanobodies') provide the remarkable specificity of antibodies within a single 15-kDa immunoglobulin VHH domain. This unique feature has …
T Li, H Cai, H Yao, B Zhou, N Zhang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19, features a receptor-binding domain (RBD) for binding to the host cell ACE2 protein,,,,–. Neutralizing antibodies that block RBD …
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, SARS-CoV-2 has caused millions of deaths worldwide. Although a number of vaccines have been deployed, the continual evolution of …
I Zimmermann, P Egloff, CAJ Hutter, FM Arnold… - elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
Mechanistic and structural studies of membrane proteins require their stabilization in specific conformations. Single domain antibodies are potent reagents for this purpose, but their …
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 …
JR Ingram, FI Schmidt, HL Ploegh - Annual review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The unique class of heavy chain–only antibodies, present in Camelidae, can be shrunk to just the variable region of the heavy chain to yield VHHs, also called nanobodies. About one …
MA Rossotti, K Bélanger, KA Henry… - The FEBS Journal, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐domain antibodies (sdAbs), the autonomous variable domains of camelid and shark heavy‐chain antibodies, have many desirable properties as components of biologic drugs …