Designed ankyrin repeat proteins (DARPins): From research to therapy

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 503, Issue , 2012, Pages 101-134

  Tamaskovic, Rastislav ^a   Simon, Manuel ^a   Stefan, Nikolas ^a   Schwill, Martin ^a   Plückthun, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Click chemistry; DARPins; Keywords; PEG, affinity determination, association rates on cells, dissociation rates on cells, fluorescence labeling, repeat proteins, tumor targeting, viral retargeting

Indexed keywords

ALVIRCEPT SUDOTOX; ANKYRIN; EPITHELIAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; MACROGOL; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CAPPING PHENOMENON; CLICK CHEMISTRY; CROSS COUPLING REACTION; CYCLOADDITION; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTER; HUMAN; HYDROPHOBICITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR PROBE; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE LIBRARY; PHAGE DISPLAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STOICHIOMETRY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84855599223     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: 15577988     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-396962-0.00005-7     Document Type: Chapter

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