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Engineering antibody fragments to fold in the absence of disulfide bonds.
Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society - 1 Feb 2009
Seo Min Jeong, Jeong Ki Jun, Leysath Clinton E, Ellington Andrew D, Iverson Brent L, Georgiou George
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Disulfide bonds play a critical role in the stabilization of the immunoglobulin beta-sandwich sandwich. Under reducing conditions, such as those that prevail in the cytoplasm, disulfide bonds do not normally form and as a result most antibodies expressed in that compartment (intrabodies) accumulate in a misfolded and inactive state. We have developed a simple method for the quantitative isolation of antibody...
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