Applications of nanobodies

S Muyldermans - Annual review of animal biosciences, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Unique, functional, homodimeric heavy chain–only antibodies, devoid of light chains, are
circulating in the blood of Camelidae. These antibodies recognize their cognate antigen via …

Intracellular delivery by membrane disruption: mechanisms, strategies, and concepts

MP Stewart, R Langer, KF Jensen - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Intracellular delivery is a key step in biological research and has enabled decades of
biomedical discoveries. It is also becoming increasingly important in industrial and medical …

Endocytosis of extracellular vesicles and release of their cargo from endosomes

BS Joshi, MA de Beer, BNG Giepmans, IS Zuhorn - ACS nano, 2020 - ACS Publications
Extracellular vesicles (EVs), such as exosomes, can mediate long-distance communication
between cells by delivering biomolecular cargo. It is speculated that EVs undergo back …

Self-assembly multivalent fluorescence-nanobody coupled multifunctional nanomaterial with colorimetric fluorescence and photothermal to enhance …

Z Li, W Zhang, Q Zhang, P Li, X Tang - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
The multimodal lateral flow immunoassay (LFIA) has provided accurate and reliable results
for fast and immediate detection. Nonetheless, multimodal LFIA remains challenging to …

The ALFA-tag is a highly versatile tool for nanobody-based bioscience applications

H Götzke, M Kilisch, M Martínez-Carranza… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Specialized epitope tags are widely used for detecting, manipulating or purifying proteins,
but often their versatility is limited. Here, we introduce the ALFA-tag, a rationally designed …

A guide to: generation and design of nanobodies

S Muyldermans - The FEBS journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A nanobody (Nb) is a registered trademark of Ablynx, referring to the single antigen‐binding
domain of heavy chain‐only antibodies (HCAbs) that are circulating in Camelidae. Nbs are …

Brainwide silencing of prion protein by AAV-mediated delivery of an engineered compact epigenetic editor

EN Neumann, TM Bertozzi, E Wu, F Serack, JW Harvey… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Prion disease is caused by misfolding of the prion protein (PrP) into pathogenic self-
propagating conformations, leading to rapid-onset dementia and death. However …

Whole-mouse clearing and imaging at the cellular level with vDISCO

R Cai, ZI Kolabas, C Pan, H Mai, S Zhao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Homeostatic and pathological phenomena often affect multiple organs across the whole
organism. Tissue clearing methods, together with recent advances in microscopy, have …

Parasitic modulation of host development by ubiquitin-independent protein degradation

W Huang, AM MacLean, A Sugio, A Maqbool… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Certain obligate parasites induce complex and substantial phenotypic changes in their hosts
in ways that favor their transmission to other trophic levels. However, the mechanisms …

NLR immune receptor–nanobody fusions confer plant disease resistance

J Kourelis, C Marchal, A Posbeyikian, A Harant… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Plant pathogens cause recurrent epidemics, threatening crop yield and global food security.
Efforts to retool the plant immune system have been limited to modifying natural components …