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ReviewAnnals of laboratory medicine2021

Application of Single-Domain Antibodies ("Nanobodies") to Laboratory Diagnosis.

Tahir S Pillay, Serge Muyldermans

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Review in Annals of laboratory medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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33citing papers in PubMed
6.7field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 64 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Tahir S PillayDepartment of Chemical Pathology and NHLS- Tshwane Academic Division, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9982-9710
Serge MuyldermansCellular and Molecular Immunology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3678-3575
Tshwane University of Technology · ZAVrije Universiteit Brussel · BE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antibodies have proven to be central in the development of diagnostic methods over decades, moving from polyclonal antibodies to the milestone development of monoclonal antibodies. Although monoclonal antibodies play a valuable role in diagnosis, their production is technically demanding and can be expensive. The large size of monoclonal antibodies (150 kDa) makes their re-engineering using recombinant methods a challenge. Single-domain antibodies, such as "nanobodies," are a relatively new class of diagnostic probes that originated serendipitously during the assay of camel serum. The immune system of the camelid family (camels, llamas, and alpacas) has evolved uniquely to produce heavy-chain antibodies that contain a single monomeric variable antibody domain in a smaller functional unit of 12-15 kDa. Interestingly, the same biological phenomenon is observed in sharks. Since a single-domain antibody molecule is smaller than a conventional mammalian antibody, recombinant engineering and protein expression

Indexed as

Single-Domain AntibodiesAnimalsAntibodies, MonoclonalCamelusClinical Laboratory TechniquesImmunoglobulin Heavy ChainsAntibodies, MonoclonalImmunoglobulin Heavy ChainsSingle-Domain AntibodiesLaboratory diagnosisMonoclonal antibodiesNanobodiesSingle-domain antibodies

Identifiers

PMID34108282
PMCPMC8203438
OpenAlexW3171070535

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