NANOBODIES®: A Review of Generation, Diagnostics and Therapeutics

B Jin, S Odongo, M Radwanska, S Magez - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
NANOBODY®(a registered trademark of Ablynx NV) molecules (Nbs), also referred to as
single domain-based VHHs, are antibody fragments derived from heavy-chain only IgG …

Engineered living materials for sustainability

B An, Y Wang, Y Huang, X Wang, Y Liu, D Xun… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Recent advances in synthetic biology and materials science have given rise to a new form of
materials, namely engineered living materials (ELMs), which are composed of living matter …

An ultrapotent synthetic nanobody neutralizes SARS-CoV-2 by stabilizing inactive Spike

M Schoof, B Faust, RA Saunders, S Sangwan, V Rezelj… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus enters host cells
via an interaction between its Spike protein and the host cell receptor angiotensin …

Phage display and other peptide display technologies

W Jaroszewicz, J Morcinek-Orłowska… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Phage display technology, which is based on the presentation of peptide sequences on the
surface of bacteriophage virions, was developed over 30 years ago. Improvements in phage …

A guide to: generation and design of nanobodies

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 …

Nanotechnology's frontier in combatting infectious and inflammatory diseases: prevention and treatment

Y Huang, X Guo, Y Wu, X Chen, L Feng, N Xie… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2024 - nature.com
Inflammation-associated diseases encompass a range of infectious diseases and non-
infectious inflammatory diseases, which continuously pose one of the most serious threats to …

Protein design and variant prediction using autoregressive generative models

JE Shin, AJ Riesselman, AW Kollasch… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The ability to design functional sequences and predict effects of variation is central to protein
engineering and biotherapeutics. State-of-art computational methods rely on models that …

SARS-CoV-2 exacerbates proinflammatory responses in myeloid cells through C-type lectin receptors and Tweety family member 2

Q Lu, J Liu, S Zhao, MFG Castro, M Laurent-Rolle… - Immunity, 2021 - cell.com
Despite mounting evidence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-
2) engagement with immune cells, most express little, if any, of the canonical receptor of …

Structure and mechanism of the SGLT family of glucose transporters

L Han, Q Qu, D Aydin, O Panova, MJ Robertson, Y Xu… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Glucose is a primary energy source in living cells. The discovery in 1960s that a sodium
gradient powers the active uptake of glucose in the intestine heralded the concept of a …

Machine learning for functional protein design

P Notin, N Rollins, Y Gal, C Sander, D Marks - Nature biotechnology, 2024 - nature.com
Recent breakthroughs in AI coupled with the rapid accumulation of protein sequence and
structure data have radically transformed computational protein design. New methods …