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ReviewMolecular biology reports2022

The role of single-domain antibodies (or nanobodies) in SARS-CoV-2 neutralization.

Arghavan Zebardast, Parastoo Hosseini, Ali Hasanzadeh, Tayebeh Latifi

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Review in Molecular biology reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 22% of its field
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

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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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Identification of nurse shark VFASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2023
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  6. Nanobodies: Robust miniprotein binders in biomedicine.Advanced drug delivery reviews · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Arghavan ZebardastDepartment of Virology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8263-241X
Parastoo HosseiniDepartment of Virology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2788-5796
Ali HasanzadehDepartment of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Golestan, Iran.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0960-8074
Tayebeh LatifiDepartment of Virology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. t.latifi1992@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3400-335X
Tehran University of Medical Sciences · IRGolestan University · IR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV-2), a newly emerging of coronavirus, continues to infect humans in the absence of a viable treatment. Neutralizing antibodies that disrupt the interaction of RBD and ACE2 has been under the spotlight as a way of developing the COVID-19 treatment. Some animals, such as llamas, manufacture heavy-chain antibodies that have a single variable domain (VHH) instead of two variable domains (VH/VL) as opposed to typical antibodies. Nanobodies are antigen-specific, single-domain, changeable segments of camelid heavy chain-only antibodies that are recombinantly produced. These types of antibodies exhibit a wide range of strong physical and chemical properties, like high solubility, and stability. The VHH's high-affinity attachment to the receptor-binding domain (RBD) allowed the neutralization of SARS-CoV-2. To tackle COVID-19, some nanobodies are being developed against SARS-CoV-2, some of which have been recently included in clinical trials. Nanobody therapy may be useful in managing the COVID-19 pandemic as a potent and low-cost treatment. This paper describes the application of nanobodies as a new class of recombinant antibodies in COVID-19 treatment.

Indexed as

COVID-19 Drug TreatmentSingle-Domain AntibodiesAnimalsAntibodies, NeutralizingAntibodies, ViralCOVID-19HumansSARS-CoV-2Spike Glycoprotein, CoronavirusAntibodies, NeutralizingAntibodies, ViralSingle-Domain AntibodiesSpike Glycoprotein, CoronavirusCOVID-19NanobodySARS-CoV-2Single-domain antibodies

Identifiers

PMID34648139
PMCPMC8514607
OpenAlexW3207147255

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