Nature Communications (Apr 2018)

Mechanically interlocked functionalization of monoclonal antibodies

  • Krzysztof P. Bzymek,
  • James W. Puckett,
  • Cindy Zer,
  • Jun Xie,
  • Yuelong Ma,
  • Jeremy D. King,
  • Leah H. Goodstein,
  • Kendra N. Avery,
  • David Colcher,
  • Gagandeep Singh,
  • David A. Horne,
  • John C. Williams

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03976-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Meditope-Fab is a peptide-antibody complex potentially useful for drug delivery and diagnostic, but a short half-life prevents its use in vivo. Here the authors engineer the complex to improve its stability, create functionalized antibodies by click chemistry and use them for in vivo tumor imaging.