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  1. Plasmids 101: Secondary Nanobody Toolbox

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    Feb. 27, 2018, 2:04 p.m.
    ...Comparison Advantages of Nanobodies How to Use the Nanobody Toolbox Find Nanobody Plasmids Structural ...anti-mouse and -rabbit IgG secondary nanobodies toolbox. Nanobodies are like tiny antibodies which work...Advantages of Nanobodies Although antibodies have been the titans of immunodetection, nanobodies may be better... with a tagged nanobody. After this pre-incubation step, the primary antibody-nanobody mix can be added...one-step staining with nanobodies vs two-step staining with antibodies. Nanobodies also simplify multicolor...target (compare nanobodies staining in figure 4A vs 4B). How to use the secondary nanobody toolbox Are you...anti-mouse and -rabbit nanobodies. If you’re interested, you can learn more about how nanobodies are identified...
  2. Opto-Nanobodies: Using Light to Manipulate Cell Signaling and Protein Purification

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    Nov. 19, 2019, 2:08 p.m.
    ...ability of its nanobody partner, so it’s important to insert AsLOV2 at a spot in the nanobody that preserves...GFP nanobodies affected binding of their target proteins. The surface-exposed loops of nanobodies seemed...about using nanobodies to control protein activity Read about RANbodies, reporter nanobody fusions Learn...the secondary nanobody toolbox for immunodetection Resources on Addgene.org Find nanobody expression plasmids...proteins, and then elute YFP.  Option #2: Opto-Nanobodies (OptoNBs) purification You skip adding a tag ...Toettcher Lab, OptoNBs are photoswitchable engineered nanobodies whose binding of their target protein is altered...have two key components: an AsLOV2 domain and a nanobody.  AsLOV2 is a light-oxygen-voltage sensing domain...
  3. No Llamas Required - Synthetic Nanobodies Against Membrane Proteins

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    June 18, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...llamas required. The advantages of synthetic nanobodies Nanobodies are small (12-15 kDa) single-domain proteins... antibody, HCab, and nanobody. For more information read our secondary nanobodies blog post.  A rapid...Purification RANbodies: Reporter Nanobody Fusions Plasmids 101: Secondary Nanobody Toolbox Resources on Addgene.org...Nanobodies from camelids have gotten a lot of press for being a promising approach for treatment or prophylaxis...prophylaxis of COVID-19. Researchers identified nanobodies that bind to coronavirus spike proteins (Wrapp...using plasmids to generate sybodies, synthetic nanobodies against the spike protein (Walter et al., 2020... that bind to specific antigens. In contrast, nanobodies are a single heavy domain fragment derived from...
  4. RANbodies: Reporter Nanobody Fusions

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    April 10, 2018, 12:56 p.m.
    ...fusion between a reporter and a nanobody that’s encoded on a plasmid. A nanobody is a ~150 amino acid, single...protein? No worries! As more nanobodies are developed, there will be more nanobodies to turn into RANbodies....More nanobody expression plasmids can be found here Watch this video to learn more about nanobodies Additional...difficult for individual labs to complete. The nanobody based RANbody platform from the Sanes Lab overcomes...RANbodies, Yamagata et al used previously published nanobody sequences that targeted the following antigens...and the actin-binding protein gelsolin, but any nanobody sequence could be used to make a RANbody. RANbodies... MYC tags built into a GFP scaffold. Some GFP nanobodies  stain poorly when tagged with a Spaghetti Monster...
  5. Hot Plasmids June 2018 - Reverse transcriptase, nanobody, and protein-DNA interaction tools

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    June 27, 2018, 1:16 p.m.
    ...Marcy Patrick  Listen to the nanobody toolkit podcast segment Nanobodies are single domain antibody fragments...Zhao C, et al. RNA. 2018 PubMed PMID:29109157. Nanobody toolkit to monitor retrograde transport at the... as regular antibodies. These properties make nanobodies easier to transform and express in bacteria, ... Spiess lab developed a set of functionalized nanobodies to study retrograde transport from the cell surface... a set of plasmids each containing an anti-GFP nanobody fused with a different functional element (tyrosine...different detection methods. Since the anti-GFP nanobody is able to bind fluorescent proteins derived from... from A. victoria the functionalized nanobodies described here can be used to target any protein fused...
  6. Hot Plasmids - August 2020

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    Aug. 18, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...160374 Nanobodies- there's a simple method for that! By Michelle Cronin The benefits of nanobodies over ...antibodies. Nanobodies are easily expressed in the cytosol of E. coli, however the nanobody proteins tend...evolution Fluorescent tools for mammalian cells Nanobody purification CRISPRi and CRISPRa system for hPSCs... conventional antibodies can’t be overlooked. Nanobodies are smaller in size, more durable, and usually...alleviates the inclusion body problem and makes nanobody production in E.coli as simple as following a ...signal peptide of MBP, followed by the desired nanobody (NB) sequence, an AviTAG, and 6xHis tag. The MBP...supernatant. Four plasmids containing different nanobodies (NB) were generated in pMAK:  pMAK461(NBαRabitb-IgG-Fc...
  7. Teaching an Old DOG New Tricks: Controlling Protein Activity with GFP

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    Nov. 24, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ... GFP-binding nanobodies, the project really took off. Unlike most antibodies, nanobodies, which occur ...inside cells. Nanobodies binding GFP were designed in 2009. Subsequent work showed that nanobodies could be...and money needed to develop new lines. Using nanobodies to create GFP scaffolds for transcriptional activation...  References 1.Tang, Jonathan C.Y., et al. “A nanobody-based system using fluorescent proteins as scaffolds...Modulation of protein properties in living cells using nanobodies.” Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 17 (2010): 133–138....Fluorescent fusion protein knockout mediated by anti-GFP nanobody.” Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 19 (2012), 117–121. ...
  8. Antibodies 101: Introduction to Antibodies

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    Jan. 19, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ...Variables (scFvs). Nanobodies Figure 3: Comparison of the Hcab and nanobody. Nanobodies are the variable...synthetic nanobodies, or synbodies, can be produced from plasmids, saving time and money. Nanobodies and synbodies...to reach. While a full antibody is ~150 kDa, a nanobody is 12-15 kDa.   Research applications for antibodies...Collection includes plasmids that express antibodies, nanobodies, and ScFvs, as well as tools for developing and...Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank Learn more about nanobodies Watch our Antibodies 101 animation, What is an...
  9. Hot Plasmids - May 2022

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    May 26, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ... The binding of the GFP nanobody to its target stabilizes the TurboID-nanobody protein and allows TurboID...TurboID fused to a conditionally stabilized GFP-nanobody rather than a specific protein of interest. This...GFP-tagged protein (albeit slightly offset due to the nanobody-GFP interaction). The modularity of the system...
  10. Building and Validating Recombinant Antibodies: A Case Study

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    April 5, 2022, 1:20 p.m.
    ...recombinant affinity reagent tools to include nanobodies. At Addgene, we are excited to be part of this...Recombinant Antibodies  Plasmids 101: Secondary Nanobody Toolbox Antibodies 101: Introduction to Antibodies...
  11. Antibodies 101: Affinity Reagents

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    April 14, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...antibodies (sdAbs), sold under the commercial name nanobodies, are derived from a camelid antibody lacking ...10.1016/j.ymeth.2018.09.005 Muyldermans S. (2013). Nanobodies: natural single-domain antibodies. Annu Rev Biochem...
  12. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - March 2021

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    March 23, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...surface and “receiver” cells express an anti-GFP nanobody on the cell surface. When the cells interact, ...fluorophore/antibody pairs. Because the anti-GFP nanobody cross-reacts with BFP, sender cells expressing...
  13. Getting to Know Expansion Microscopy

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    June 20, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...alleviated by maximizing label density. In some cases, nanobodies have been found to help improve label density...Resolving bundled microtubules using anti-tubulin nanobodies. Nat Commun 6:7933. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8933...
  14. Addgene's Top Blog Posts from 2020

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    Dec. 29, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ... their reagents: detection methods, synthetic nanobodies, SARS-CoV-2 protein expression, and more. We ...
  15. Antibodies 101: Secondary Antibodies

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    Dec. 21, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ...The introduction of antibody fragments, such as nanobodies, has introduced new options for increasing signal...
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