No Llamas Required - Synthetic Nanobodies Against Membrane Proteins
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... - all without the need to find a llama farm!
To find an optimally binding sybody, you want to start out...COVID-19. Researchers identified nanobodies that bind to coronavirus spike proteins (Wrapp et al., 2020...days and isolated special camelid antibodies that bind to the spike proteins in cell culture, and inhibit...small (12-15 kDa) single-domain proteins that can bind effectively to protein targets, similar to how antibodies... “arms” holding the highly variable regions that bind to specific antigens. In contrast, nanobodies are...of sybodies that hypothetically contain ones that bind strongly to your target protein. The Seeger lab ...corresponding to different amino acids) in the regions that bind to the antigen. The Seeger lab can directly provide...