Studying the impact of natural variation on a key immune gene highlights how focusing on a single wild-type sequence overlooks that rare variants cause the most disease.
Christian Tiede, Robert Bedford ... Darren Charles Tomlinson
The Affimer technology represents renewable binding reagents for molecular biology, which provides research scientists and industry with an alternative to the recently criticised use of animal-produced antibodies.
Nicolas P Andrews, Justin X Boeckman ... James S Trimmer
This paper describes an effective pipeline for conversion of conventional monoclonal antibodies into recombinant form that results in an IgG subclass switch that greatly expands their utility for multiplex labeling.
Benjamin FN Campbell, Antje Dittmann ... Shiva K Tyagarajan
Anti-gephyrin synthetic protein binders were screened and developed to specifically and robustly detect gephyrin protein and gephyrin-interacting protein partners in the mouse brain, generating a useful tool set for neuroscience.
Yiska Weisblum, Fabian Schmidt ... Paul D Bieniasz
SARS-CoV-2 spike variants that resist neutralization by therapeutic antibodies or convalescent plasma can be generated in the laboratory and exist at low frequency in natural populations.
William John Bradshaw, Michael Poeschla ... Dario Riccardo Valenzano
Naturally short-lived turquoise killifish undergo systemic and mucosal spontaneous decline in antibody-repertoire diversity during aging, recapitulating in a few months the aging-dependent decline of adaptive immunity.
Samira Lakhal-Littleton, Magda Wolna ... Peter A Robbins
The novel role of hepcidin in cell-autonomous iron regulation changes our understanding of tissue-specific iron control, and of its interplay with systemic iron homeostasis.