Characterization of camel nanobodies specific for superfolder GFP fusion proteins

Molecular Biology Reports

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 6887-6898

  Twair, Aya ^a,b   Al Okla, Souad ^a   Zarkawi, Moutaz ^b   Abbady, Abdul Qader ^b  

^a DAMASCUS UNIVERSITY   (Syrian Arab Republic)

^b DEPARTMENT OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Syrian Arab Republic)

Author keywords

Camel; Fusion protein; Nanobody; Phage display; sfGFP

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; NANOBODY; ANTIGEN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PEPTIDE LIBRARY;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGEN BINDING; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; BIOPANNING; CAMEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITOPE MAPPING; FAST PROTEIN LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; ISOELECTRIC POINT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CELL SURFACE DISPLAY; CHEMISTRY; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PEPTIDE LIBRARY;

CAMELIDAE; CAMELUS DROMEDARIUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENS; CAMELS; CELL SURFACE DISPLAY TECHNIQUES; EPITOPE MAPPING; FEMALE; GENE LIBRARY; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE LIBRARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SINGLE-DOMAIN ANTIBODIES;

EID: 84919327096     PISSN: 03014851     EISSN: 15734978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11033-014-3575-x     Document Type: Article

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