Solubility and stability engineering of human VH domains

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 911, Issue , 2012, Pages 355-372

  Kim, Dae Young ^a   Ding, Wen ^a   Tanha, Jamshid ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Disulfide linkage; Human VH; Melting temperature; Single domain antibody; Solubility; Stability

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VH ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN STABILITY; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 84934438975     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-968-6_21     Document Type: Article

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