Construction, expression and characterisation of a single-chain diabody derived from a humanised anti-Lewis Y cancer targeting antibody using a heat-inducible bacterial secretion vector

2001 ◽  
Vol 50 (5) ◽  
pp. 241-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara E. Power ◽  
Joanne M. Caine ◽  
John E. Burns ◽  
Deborah R. Shapira ◽  
Meghan K. Hattarki ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mie A. Nordmaj ◽  
Morgan E. Roberts ◽  
Emilie S. Sachse ◽  
Robert Dagil ◽  
Anne Poder Andersen ◽  
...  

AbstractAs an immune evasion and survival strategy, the Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasite has evolved a protein named VAR2CSA. This protein mediates sequestration of infected red blood cells in the placenta through the interaction with a unique carbohydrate abundantly and exclusively present in the placenta. Cancer cells were found to share the same expression of this distinct carbohydrate, termed oncofetal chondroitin sulfate on their surface. In this study we have used a protein conjugation system to produce a bispecific immune engager, V-aCD3, based on recombinant VAR2CSA as the cancer targeting moiety and an anti-CD3 single-chain variable fragment linked to a single-chain Fc as the immune engager. Conjugation of these two proteins resulted in a single functional moiety that induced immune mediated killing of a broad range of cancer cells in vitro and facilitated tumor arrest in an orthotopic bladder cancer xenograft model.



PLoS ONE ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. e97367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiu-Min Cheng ◽  
Shey-Cherng Tzou ◽  
Ya-Han Zhuang ◽  
Chien-Chiao Huang ◽  
Chien-Han Kao ◽  
...  


2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 411-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus P. Kelly ◽  
F.-T. Lee ◽  
Kiki Tahtis ◽  
Barbara E. Power ◽  
Fiona E. Smyth ◽  
...  




Gene ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 116 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel A. Molina ◽  
Francesc X. Avilés ◽  
Enrique Querol


2005 ◽  
Vol 306 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 51-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Maynard ◽  
Erin J. Adams ◽  
Michelle Krogsgaard ◽  
Karin Petersson ◽  
Corey W. Liu ◽  
...  




Gene ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 150 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Brünen-Nieweler ◽  
Frank Meyer ◽  
Klaus Heckmann


Author(s):  
P. F. Flicker ◽  
V.S. Kulkarni ◽  
J. P. Robinson ◽  
G. Stubbs ◽  
B. R. DasGupta

Botulinum toxin is a potent neurotoxin produced by Clostridium botulinum. The toxin inhibits release of neurotransmitter, causing muscle paralysis. There are several serotypes, A to G, all of molecular weight about 150,000. The protein exists as a single chain or or as two chains, with two disulfide linkages. In a recent investigation on intracellular action of neurotoxins it was reported that type B neurotoxin can inhibit the release of Ca++-activated [3H] norepinephrine only if the disulfide bonds are reduced. In order to investigate possible structural changes in the toxin upon reduction of the disulfide bonds, we have prepared two-dimensional crystals of reduced type B neurotoxin. These two-dimensional crystals will be compared with those of the native (unreduced) type B toxin.



Author(s):  
David R. Veblen

Extended defects and interfaces control many processes in rock-forming minerals, from chemical reactions to rock deformation. In many cases, it is not the average structure of a defect or interface that is most important, but rather the structure of defect terminations or offsets in an interface. One of the major thrusts of high-resolution electron microscopy in the earth sciences has been to identify the role of defect fine structures in reactions and to determine the structures of such features. This paper will review studies using HREM and image simulations to determine the structures of defects in silicate and oxide minerals and present several examples of the role of defects in mineral chemical reactions. In some cases, the geological occurrence can be used to constrain the diffusional properties of defects.The simplest reactions in minerals involve exsolution (precipitation) of one mineral from another with a similar crystal structure, and pyroxenes (single-chain silicates) provide a good example. Although conventional TEM studies have led to a basic understanding of this sort of phase separation in pyroxenes via spinodal decomposition or nucleation and growth, HREM has provided a much more detailed appreciation of the processes involved.



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