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ReviewMolecular & cellular proteomics : MCP2024

Nanobodies: From High-Throughput Identification to Therapeutic Development.

Peter C Fridy, Michael P Rout, Natalia E Ketaren

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Review in Molecular & cellular proteomics : MCP, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Production of isotope-labeled nanobody KN035 inMagnetic resonance letters · 2026
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  8. Comprehensive Mapping of Immune Nanobody Repertoires with NanoMAP.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  16. Efficient generation of epitope-targetedbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Peter C FridyLaboratory of Cellular and Structural Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, USA.
Michael P RoutLaboratory of Cellular and Structural Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, USA.
Natalia E KetarenLaboratory of Cellular and Structural Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, USA. Electronic address: nketaren@rockefeller.edu.

Funding

TR&D Project 4. The Imaging Stage: Multiscale Spatiotemporal Modeling of Macromolecular Systems in Cellular NeighborhoodsP41GM109824 · NIGMS · ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY · PI ROUT, MICHAEL P · 2014 to 2023
$18.8M
Synergistic Nanobodies for Pandemic PreparednessR01AI189657 · NIAID · ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY · PI JOHN D. AITCHISON, MICHAEL P ROUT · 2025 to 2026
$1.7M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI189657NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM109824
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The camelid single-domain antibody fragment, commonly referred to as a nanobody, achieves the targeting power of conventional monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) at only a fraction of their size. Isolated from camelid species (including llamas, alpacas, and camels), their small size at ∼15 kDa, low structural complexity, and high stability compared with conventional antibodies have propelled nanobody technology into the limelight of biologic development. Nanobodies are proving themselves to be a potent complement to traditional mAb therapies, showing success in the treatment of, for example, autoimmune diseases and cancer, and more recently as therapeutic options to treat infectious diseases caused by rapidly evolving biological targets such as the SARS-CoV-2 virus. This review highlights the benefits of applying a proteomic approach to identify diverse nanobody sequences against a single antigen. This proteomic approach coupled with conventional yeast/phage display methods enables the production of highly diverse repertoires of nanobodies able to bind the vast epitope landscape of an antigen, with epitope sampling surpassing that of mAbs. Additionally, we aim to highlight recent findings illuminating the structural attributes of nanobodies that make them particularly amenable to comprehensive antigen sampling and to synergistic activity-underscoring the powerful advantage of acquiring a large, diverse nanobody repertoire against a single antigen. Lastly, we highlight the efforts being made in the clinical development of nanobodies, which have great potential as powerful diagnostic reagents and treatment options, especially when targeting infectious disease agents.

Indexed as

ProteomicsSingle-Domain AntibodiesAnimalsCOVID-19COVID-19 Drug TreatmentEpitopesHumansSARS-CoV-2EpitopesSingle-Domain Antibodiesantibody displayantibody engineeringantibody selectionantibody therapeuticsmass spectrometrymonoclonal antibodynanobodysingle-domain antibodyV(H)H

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PMID39433212
PMCPMC11609455

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