No Llamas Required - Synthetic Nanobodies Against Membrane Proteins
Type
Blog Post
Published
June 18, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
...treatment or prophylaxis of COVID-19. Researchers identified nanobodies that bind to coronavirus spike proteins... randomized with a defined set of different trinucleotides (corresponding to different amino acids) in...bind to the antigen. The Seeger lab can directly provide the three sybody libraries in the form of mRNA ...tags are used in a final enrichment step for identifying sybodies that bind strongly and specifically ...their protocol because it is less susceptible to identifying unspecific and low-affinity sybodies (Zimmermann...-30) of sybody candidates are sequenced for identification. All unique sybodies can be subcloned into ...demonstrated they could use the protocol to rapidly identify and isolate sybodies targeting the SARS-CoV-2 ...