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By-passing immunisation. Human antibodies from synthetic repertoires of germline VH gene segments rearranged in vitro.

Hennie R. Hoogenboom, +1 more
- 20 Sep 1992 - 
- Vol. 227, Iss: 2, pp 381-388
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In this article, a repertoire of human VH genes from 49 human germline VH gene segments was rearranged in vitro to create a synthetic third complementarity determining region (CDR) of five or eight residues.
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This article is published in Journal of Molecular Biology.The article was published on 1992-09-20. It has received 1029 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Phage display & Hapten.

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Production of chimeric antibodies - a combinatorial approach

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe methods for the production of antibodies, or antibody fragments, which have the same binding specificity as a parent antibody, but which have increased human characteristics.
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Isolation of high affinity human antibodies directly from large synthetic repertoires.

TL;DR: This work created highly diverse repertoires of heavy and light chains entirely in vitro from a bank of human V gene segments and generated a large synthetic repertoire of Fab fragments displayed on filamentous phage to help dissect the contributions of biological mechanisms and structural features governing V gene usage in vivo.
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Fully synthetic human combinatorial antibody libraries (HuCAL) based on modular consensus frameworks and CDRs randomized with trinucleotides.

TL;DR: The small number of 49 master genes will allow future improvements to be incorporated quickly, and the separation of the frameworks may help in analyzing why nature has evolved these distinct subfamilies of antibody germline genes.
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Domain antibodies: proteins for therapy

TL;DR: Domain Antibels (dAbs) as discussed by the authors are the smallest known antigen-binding fragments of antibodies, ranging from 11 kDa to 15 kDa, and they are the robust variable regions of the heavy and light chains of immunoglobulins (VH and VL respectively).
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Selecting and screening recombinant antibody libraries

TL;DR: The first antibody of this new generation, adalimumab (Humira, a human IgG1 specific for human tumor necrosis factor (TNF)), already approved for therapy and with many more in clinical trials, these recombinant antibody technologies will provide a solid basis for the discovery of antibody-based biopharmaceuticals, diagnostics and research reagents for decades to come.
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DNA sequencing with chain-terminating inhibitors

TL;DR: A new method for determining nucleotide sequences in DNA is described, which makes use of the 2',3'-dideoxy and arabinon nucleoside analogues of the normal deoxynucleoside triphosphates, which act as specific chain-terminating inhibitors of DNA polymerase.
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Primer-directed enzymatic amplification of DNA with a thermostable DNA polymerase

TL;DR: A thermostable DNA polymerase was used in an in vitro DNA amplification procedure, the polymerase chain reaction, which significantly improves the specificity, yield, sensitivity, and length of products that can be amplified.
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Phage antibodies: filamentous phage displaying antibody variable domains

TL;DR: It is shown that complete antibody V domains can be displayed on the surface of fd bacteriophage, that the phage bind specifically to antigen and that rare phage can be isolated after affinity chromatography.
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Replacing the complementarity-determining regions in a human antibody with those from a mouse

TL;DR: This work substituted the CDRs from the heavy-chain variable region of mouse antibody B1–8, which binds the hapten NP-cap, for the corresponding CDRs of a human myeloma protein, to determine whether the antigen-binding site could be transplanted from one framework to another by grafting theCDRs.
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