Exploring cellular biochemistry with nanobodies

RW Cheloha, TJ Harmand, C Wijne… - Journal of Biological …, 2020 - ASBMB
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 …

Applications of nanobodies in brain diseases

F Zheng, Y Pang, L Li, Y Pang, J Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Nanobodies are antibody fragments derived from camelids, naturally endowed with
properties like low molecular weight, high affinity and low immunogenicity, which contribute …

Optogenetic control of protein binding using light-switchable nanobodies

AA Gil, C Carrasco-López, L Zhu, EM Zhao… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
A growing number of optogenetic tools have been developed to reversibly control binding
between two engineered protein domains. In contrast, relatively few tools confer light …

Circumvention of common labelling artefacts using secondary nanobodies

S Sograte-Idrissi, T Schlichthaerle, CJ Duque-Afonso… - Nanoscale, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
A standard procedure to study cellular elements is via immunostaining followed by optical
imaging. This methodology typically requires target-specific primary antibodies (1. Abs) …

Structural and mechanistic analysis of a tripartite ATP-independent periplasmic TRAP transporter

MF Peter, JA Ruland, P Dep**… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Tripartite ATP-independent periplasmic (TRAP) transporters are found widely in bacteria
and archaea and consist of three structural domains, a soluble substrate-binding protein (P …

Cryo-EM structures of a LptDE transporter in complex with Pro-macrobodies offer insight into lipopolysaccharide translocation

M Botte, D Ni, S Schenck, I Zimmermann… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Lipopolysaccharides are major constituents of the extracellular leaflet in the bacterial outer
membrane and form an effective physical barrier for environmental threats and for antibiotics …

Nanobodies right in the middle: intrabodies as toolbox to visualize and modulate antigens in the living cell

TR Wagner, U Rothbauer - Biomolecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
In biomedical research, there is an ongoing demand for new technologies to elucidate
disease mechanisms and develop novel therapeutics. This requires comprehensive …

The extracellular gate shapes the energy profile of an ABC exporter

CAJ Hutter, MH Timachi, LM Hürlimann… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
ABC exporters harness the energy of ATP to pump substrates across membranes.
Extracellular gate opening and closure are key steps of the transport cycle, but the …

A toolbox of nanobodies developed and validated for use as intrabodies and nanoscale immunolabels in mammalian brain neurons

JX Dong, Y Lee, M Kirmiz, S Palacio, C Dumitras… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Nanobodies (nAbs) are small, minimal antibodies that have distinct attributes that make
them uniquely suited for certain biomedical research, diagnostic and therapeutic …

Engineered peptide barcodes for in-depth analyses of binding protein libraries

P Egloff, I Zimmermann, FM Arnold, CAJ Hutter… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Binding protein generation typically relies on laborious screening cascades that process
candidate molecules individually. We have developed NestLink, a binder selection and …