Studying the antibody repertoire after vaccination: practical applications

JD Galson, AJ Pollard, J Trück, DF Kelly - Trends in immunology, 2014 - cell.com
Nearly all licensed vaccines have been developed to confer protection against infectious
diseases by stimulating the production of antibodies by B cells, but the nature of a successful …

Development of antibody immuno-PET/SPECT radiopharmaceuticals for imaging of oncological disorders—an update

J Dewulf, K Adhikari, C Vangestel, TVD Wyngaert… - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Positron emission tomography (PET) and single-photon emission computed tomography
(SPECT) are molecular imaging strategies that typically use radioactively labeled ligands to …

Method for making antibody Fc-heterodimeric molecules using electrostatic steering effects

G Kannan, M Wittekind, W Yan, M Pentony - 2009 - Google Patents
Antibodies have become the modality of choice within the biopharma industry because they
possess several characteristics that are attractive to those developing therapeutic …

[HTML][HTML] Synthesis of heterobifunctional protein fusions using copper-free click chemistry and the aldehyde tag

JE Hudak, RM Barfield, GW de Hart… - … (International ed. in …, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Heterobifunctional protein fusions are gaining interest as next-generation
biopharmaceuticals.[1–5] Combining proteins with disparate functions can enable multidrug …

[PDF][PDF] Structure and flexibility of individual immunoglobulin G molecules in solution

S Sandin, LG Öfverstedt, AC Wikström, Ö Wrange… - Structure, 2004 - cell.com
In contrast to averaging methods of determining structure, such as X-ray diffraction, NMR,
and single-particle tomography, cryo-electron tomography allows three-dimensional …

Immunoactive two-dimensional self-assembly of monoclonal antibodies in aqueous solution revealed by atomic force microscopy

S Ido, H Kimiya, K Kobayashi, H Kominami… - Nature materials, 2014 - nature.com
The conformational flexibility of antibodies in solution directly affects their immune function.
Namely, the flexible hinge regions of immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies are essential in …

Insights into the chicken IgY with emphasis on the generation and applications of chicken recombinant monoclonal antibodies

W Lee, AS Atif, SC Tan, CH Leow - Journal of immunological methods, 2017 - Elsevier
The advantages of chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) antibodies as immunodiagnostic and
immunotherapeutic biomolecules has only been recently recognized. Even so, chicken …

Curvature of synthetic and natural surfaces is an important target feature in classical pathway complement activation

MB Pedersen, X Zhou, EKU Larsen… - The journal of …, 2010 - journals.aai.org
The binding of Abs to microbial surfaces followed by complement activation constitutes an
important line of defense against infections. In this study, we have investigated the …

Engineering biomolecular microenvironments for cell instructive biomaterials

CA Custódio, RL Reis, JF Mano - Advanced healthcare …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Engineered cell instructive microenvironments with the ability to stimulate specific cellular
responses are a topic of high interest in the fabrication and development of biomaterials for …

Tracking down the molecular architecture of the synaptonemal complex by expansion microscopy

FU Zwettler, MC Spindler, S Reinhard, T Klein… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The synaptonemal complex (SC) is a meiosis-specific nuclear multiprotein complex that is
essential for proper synapsis, recombination and segregation of homologous chromosomes …