Affinity-matured recombinant antibody fragments analyzed by single-molecule force spectroscopy

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 93, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3583-3590

  Morfill, Julia ^a   Blank, Kerstin ^a,c   Zahnd, Christian ^b   Luginbühl, Beatrice ^b   Kühner, Ferdinand ^a   Gottschalk, Kay E ^a   Plückthun, Andreas ^b   Gaub, Hermann E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LOUIS PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MALEIMIDE; RECOMBINANT ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DATA ANALYSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HISTOGRAM; MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROTEOMICS; SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 36549066310     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.107.112532     Document Type: Article

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