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SUBMITTER: Zielonka S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4622739 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zielonka Stefan S Empting Martin M Grzeschik Julius J Könning Doreen D Barelle Caroline J CJ Kolmar Harald H
mAbs 20150101 1
In addition to antibodies with the classical composition of heavy and light chains, the adaptive immune repertoire of sharks also includes a heavy-chain only isotype, where antigen binding is mediated exclusively by a small and highly stable domain, referred to as vNAR. In recent years, due to their high affinity and specificity combined with their small size, high physicochemical stability and low-cost of production, vNAR fragments have evolved as promising target-binding scaffolds that can be ...[more]