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ReviewAdvanced drug delivery reviews2008

The chemistry of irreversible capture.

Claude F Meares

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Review in Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Precision Modification of Native Antibodies.Bioconjugate chemistry · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Claude F MearesDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA. cfmeares@ucdavis.edu

Funding

BIFUNCTIONAL CHELATING AGENTS IN TUMOR LOCALIZATIONR01CA016861 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS · PI MEARES, CLAUDE F. · 1985 to 2009
$2.3M
Pretargeted Antibodies with Infinite AffinityR01CA098207 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS · PI MEARES, CLAUDE F. · 2003 to 2006
$817k
BIFUNCTIONAL CHELATING AGENTS IN TUMOR LOCALIZATIONR37CA016861 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS · PI MEARES, CLAUDE F. · 1990 to 1997
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NCI NIH HHS CA016861NCI NIH HHS CA098207NCI NIH HHS R01 CA016861NCI NIH HHS R01 CA098207
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The specific recognition and binding of biological molecules by antibodies is fundamentally important. Natural antibodies are multivalent, having at least two identical ligand-binding sites; this permits them to bind tightly at cell surfaces, which present multiple copies of their target ligands. Antibodies that bind to soluble monovalent ligands, such as most small molecules, do not share this multivalent advantage. Nor do engineered fragments of antibodies, such as single-chain Fv proteins or Fab fragments, which generally possess only a single ligand-binding site. Engineered monovalent antibody/ligand pairs that retain the binding specificity of the antibody, but do not dissociate, are promising components of new delivery systems. These are based on a combination of genetic manipulation of the protein and chemical synthesis of appropriate ligands, examples of which are reviewed here.

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Antibody AffinityDrug Delivery SystemsProtein EngineeringAffinity LabelsAntibodiesChelating AgentsAffinity LabelsAntibodiesChelating Agents

Identifiers

PMID18538444
PMCPMC2543059

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