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 …

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 …

Rapid single-molecule detection of COVID-19 and MERS antigens via nanobody-functionalized organic electrochemical transistors

K Guo, S Wustoni, A Koklu, E Díaz-Galicia… - Nature Biomedical …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has highlighted the need for
rapid and sensitive protein detection and quantification in simple and robust formats for …

Mouse heterochromatin adopts digital compaction states without showing hallmarks of HP1-driven liquid-liquid phase separation

F Erdel, A Rademacher, R Vlijm, J Tünnermann… - Molecular cell, 2020 - cell.com
The formation of silenced and condensed heterochromatin foci involves enrichment of
heterochromatin protein 1 (HP1). HP1 can bridge chromatin segments and form liquid …

[HTML][HTML] Transcription activation is enhanced by multivalent interactions independent of phase separation

J Trojanowski, L Frank, A Rademacher, N Mücke… - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Transcription factors (TFs) consist of a DNA-binding domain and an activation domain (AD)
that are frequently considered to be independent and exchangeable modules. However …

Nanobodies: natural single-domain antibodies

S Muyldermans - Annual review of biochemistry, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Sera of camelids contain both conventional heterotetrameric antibodies and unique
functional heavy (H)-chain antibodies (HCAbs). The H chain of these homodimeric …

Stella safeguards the oocyte methylome by preventing de novo methylation mediated by DNMT1

Y Li, Z Zhang, J Chen, W Liu, W Lai, B Liu, X Li, L Liu… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Postnatal growth of mammalian oocytes is accompanied by a progressive gain of DNA
methylation, which is predominantly mediated by DNMT3A, a de novo DNA …

Embodiment in socially interactive robots

E Deng, B Mutlu, MJ Mataric - Foundations and Trends® in …, 2019 - nowpublishers.com
Physical embodiment is a required component for robots that are structurally coupled with
their real-world environments. However, most socially interactive robots do not need to …

The fork protection complex promotes parental histone recycling and epigenetic memory

SJ Charlton, V Flury, Y Kanoh, AV Genzor, L Kollenstart… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
The inheritance of parental histones across the replication fork is thought to mediate
epigenetic memory. Here, we reveal that fission yeast Mrc1 (CLASPIN in humans) binds H3 …

Exploiting nanobodies' singular traits

JR Ingram, FI Schmidt, HL Ploegh - Annual review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The unique class of heavy chain–only antibodies, present in Camelidae, can be shrunk to
just the variable region of the heavy chain to yield VHHs, also called nanobodies. About one …