An engineered bivalent single-chain antibody fragment that increases antigen binding activity

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 831-834

  Luo, D ^a   Geng, M ^a   Noujaim, A A ^a   Madiyalakan, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antibody engineering; Bivalent scFv; Pichia pastoris; Single chain Fv

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CYSTEINE; DIMER; DISULFIDE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MONOMER; POLYPEPTIDE;

ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; BINDING COMPETITION; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ENDOMYCETALES; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY;

EID: 0030976355     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a021661     Document Type: Article

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