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ReviewClinical and experimental immunology2011

Antibody fragments as tools in crystallography.

L Griffin, A Lawson

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Review in Clinical and experimental immunology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Biomolecular Crystallisation Through Soft Templates and Seeding.Advances in biochemical engineering/biotechnology · 2026
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  3. Preparing for successful protein crystallization experiments.Acta crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology communications · 2025
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  6. Fragment antigen binding domains (FSynthetic and systems biotechnology · 2022
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  8. The Structure and Mechanism of Drug Transporters.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2021
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  16. Structural basis for activation of SAGA histone acetyltransferase Gcn5 by partner subunit Ada2.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

L GriffinDepartment of Structural Biology, UCB, Slough, UK.
A Lawson

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While antibody-based therapeutics have become firmly established as front-line drugs, the use of antibodies as research tools in small molecule drug discovery is still in its infancy. In this review we focus on the use of antibody fragments as crystallization chaperones to aid the structural determination of otherwise 'uncrystallizable' or 'undruggable' target proteins. We also highlight a potential application for this technology, in which antibody-mediated structures may be used to inform the design of new chemical entities.

Indexed as

CrystallographyDrug DiscoveryImmunoglobulin FragmentsProtein StabilityImmunoglobulin Fragments

Identifiers

PMID21649648
PMCPMC3170977

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