Engineering Venom's toxin-neutralizing antibody fragments and its therapeutic potential

Toxins

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2541-2567

  Alvarenga, Larissa M ^a,f   Zahid, Muhammad ^a,e   di Tommaso, Anne ^b   Juste, Matthieu O ^b   Aubrey, Nicolas ^b   Billiald, Philippe ^a,c   Muzard, Julien ^a,d  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e ISLAMIA COLLEGE UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^f FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antibody; Antivenom; Diabody; Nanobody; scFv; Scorpion stings; Serum therapy; Snakebite

Indexed keywords

BISPECIFIC ANTIBODY; DIPHTHERIA ANTIBODY; EPITOPE; NANOBODY; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; NOXIUSTOXIN; RECOMBINANT ANTIBODY; SCORPION VENOM; SERRUMAB; SINGLE CHAIN FRAGMENT VARIABLE ANTIBODY; SNAKE VENOM; SODIUM CHANNEL; TITYUS TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VENOM ANTISERUM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FRAGMENT; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; VENOM;

ANDROCTONUS AUSTRALIS; ANTIBODY COMBINING SITE; ANTIBODY ENGINEERING; ARTIODACTYLA; BINDING AFFINITY; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGION; ENVENOMATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HORSE; HUMAN; HYBRIDOMA; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; LD 50; NONHUMAN; PASTEURIZATION; PLASMAPHERESIS; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REVIEW; SCORPION; SHEEP; SNAKEBITE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ANIMAL; BITES AND STINGS; IMMUNOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODIES, NEUTRALIZING; ANTIVENINS; BITES AND STINGS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FRAGMENTS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; VENOMS;

EID: 84927172700     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/toxins6082541     Document Type: Review

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