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ReviewThe Journal of biological chemistry2020

Exploring cellular biochemistry with nanobodies.

Ross W Cheloha, Thibault J Harmand, Charlotte Wijne, Thomas U Schwartz, Hidde L Ploegh

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Review in The Journal of biological chemistry, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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61 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Ross W ChelohaProgram in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Thibault J HarmandProgram in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Charlotte WijneProgram in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Thomas U SchwartzDepartment of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Hidde L PloeghProgram in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Electronic address: hidde.ploegh@childrens.harvard.edu.

Funding

Imposing order on the family of ubiquitin-conjugating (E2) enzymes through intracellular perturbation with nanobodiesDP1AI150593 · NIAID · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI PLOEGH, HIDDE L. · 2019 to 2023
$7.1M
Sortase-mediated protein engineering for the study of host-pathogen interactionsR01AI087879 · NIAID · WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RES · PI PLOEGH, HIDDE L. · 2010 to 2019
$4.5M
High Resolution Assembly Structure of The Nuclear Pore ComplexR01GM077537 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI SCHWARTZ, THOMAS · 2007 to 2019
$4.3M
Structure-Function of the Nuclear Envelope Bridge and its Role in LaminopathiesR01AR065484 · NIAMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI SCHWARTZ, THOMAS · 2014 to 2018
$1.6M
NIAID NIH HHS DP1 AI150593NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI087879NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR065484NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM077537
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Reagents that bind tightly and specifically to biomolecules of interest remain essential in the exploration of biology and in their ultimate application to medicine. Besides ligands for receptors of known specificity, agents commonly used for this purpose are monoclonal antibodies derived from mice, rabbits, and other animals. However, such antibodies can be expensive to produce, challenging to engineer, and are not necessarily stable in the context of the cellular cytoplasm, a reducing environment. Heavy chain-only antibodies, discovered in camelids, have been truncated to yield single-domain antibody fragments (VHHs or nanobodies) that overcome many of these shortcomings. Whereas they are known as crystallization chaperones for membrane proteins or as simple alternatives to conventional antibodies, nanobodies have been applied in settings where the use of standard antibodies or their derivatives would be impractical or impossible. We review recent examples in which the unique properties of nanobodies have been combined with complementary methods, such as chemical functionalization, to provide tools with unique and useful properties.

Indexed as

BiochemistryCytological TechniquesAnimalsAntibodies, MonoclonalHumansSingle-Domain AntibodiesAntibodies, MonoclonalSingle-Domain Antibodiesantibody engineeringcell signalingprotein chemistrysingle-domain antibody (SdAb)synthetic biology

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PMID32868455
PMCPMC7650250

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