HA Frankenbody, a New Imaging Tool to Visualize Single Molecules and Nascent Peptides
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...scientists have co-opted antibodies for tagging purposes. Different antibodies bind different protein sequences...together. By combining two optimized elements of an antibody probe, scientists can now more easily visualize...amplify and image for long periods of time.
Are antibody based probes a solution?
To address these limitations...can use these to tag their proteins of interest. Antibody based probes, such as antigen-binding fragments...HA frankenbody
To combat the issues with these antibody based probes the Stasevich lab used an alternative...alternative strategy to develop a genetically encoded antibody based probe that detects the widely used HA epitope...complementarity determining regions (CDRs, or loops) of an antibody that recognize and bind specific epitopes (Ewert...