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ReviewClinical & developmental immunology2012

scFv antibody: principles and clinical application.

Zuhaida Asra Ahmad, Swee Keong Yeap, Abdul Manaf Ali, Wan Yong Ho, Noorjahan Banu Mohamed Alitheen, Muhajir Hamid

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Review in Clinical & developmental immunology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 350 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

350 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Zuhaida Asra AhmadDepartment of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, 43400 Serdang, Malaysia.
Swee Keong Yeap
Abdul Manaf Ali
Wan Yong Ho
Noorjahan Banu Mohamed Alitheen
Muhajir Hamid

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To date, generation of single-chain fragment variable (scFv) has become an established technique used to produce a completely functional antigen-binding fragment in bacterial systems. The advances in antibody engineering have now facilitated a more efficient and generally applicable method to produce Fv fragments. Basically, scFv antibodies produced from phage display can be genetically fused to the marker proteins, such as fluorescent proteins or alkaline phosphatase. These bifunctional proteins having both antigen-binding capacity and marker activity can be obtained from transformed bacteria and used for one-step immunodetection of biological agents. Alternatively, antibody fragments could also be applied in the construction of immunotoxins, therapeutic gene delivery, and anticancer intrabodies for therapeutic purposes. This paper provides an overview of the current studies on the principle, generation, and application of scFv. The potential of scFv in breast cancer research is also discussed in this paper.

Indexed as

Single-Chain AntibodiesAntibodies, BispecificBreast NeoplasmsEscherichia coliFemaleGenes, ReporterHumansImmunotoxinsMolecular Targeted TherapyPeptide LibraryPlasmidsProtein EngineeringRecombinant Fusion ProteinsTransformation, BacterialAntibodies, BispecificImmunotoxinsPeptide LibraryRecombinant Fusion ProteinsSingle-Chain Antibodies

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PMID22474489
PMCPMC3312285

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