Artificial affinity proteins as ligands of immunoglobulins

Biomolecules

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 60-75

  Mouratou, Barbara ^a,b   Béhar, Ghislaine ^a,b   Pecorari, Frédéric ^a,b  

^a Team 12   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Affibody; Affitin; Alternative scaffold protein; CBM; DARPin; Fc; Immunoglobulin; Knottin; Monobody

Indexed keywords

ANKYRIN; ANKYRIN REPEAT PROTEIN; CARBOHYDRATE BINDING PROTEIN; FIBRONECTIN BINDING PROTEIN; KNOTTIN; OMALIZUMAB; PEGDINETANIB; PROTEIN G; SCAFFOLD PROTEIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PROTEIN A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LIGAND; PROTEIN;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; BINDING AFFINITY; COMBINATORIAL LIBRARY; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; DRUG SPECIFICITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITOPE MAPPING; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; THERMOSTABILITY; TISSUE SCAFFOLD; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; METABOLISM; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; LIGANDS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS;

EID: 84990306240     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2218273X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/biom5010060     Document Type: Review

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