Nanobodies and recombinant binders in cell biology

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 209, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 633-644

  Helma, Jonas ^a   Cardoso, M Cristina ^b   Muyldermans, Serge ^c   Leonhardt, Heinrich ^a  

^a Munich Center for Integrated Protein Science   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOBODY; REAGENT; RECOMBINANT ANTIBODY;

BIOSENSOR; CYTOLOGY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN MICROARRAY;

ANIMALS; CELL BIOLOGY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; PROTEIN ARRAY ANALYSIS; SINGLE-DOMAIN ANTIBODIES;

EID: 84945195539     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: 15408140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201409074     Document Type: Review

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