Improved tumour targeting by disulphide stabilized diabodies expressed in Pichia pastoris.
Authors:FitzGerald K, Holliger P, Winter G,
Journal:Protein Eng
PubMed ID:9488147
'Diabodies are dimeric antibody fragments held together by associated heavy and light chain variable domains present on different polypeptide chains. To improve their stability we have introduced cysteine residues into the V-domains to promote the disulphide crosslinking of the dimer. A crosslinked bivalent diabody against carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and a ... More
Distinct kinetics for binding of the CD46 and SLAM receptors to overlapping sites in the measles virus hemagglutinin protein.
Measles virus (MV) is a human pathogen using two distinct cell surface receptors for entry into host cells. We present here a comparative analysis for binding of the MV receptors CD46 and SLAM to the measles virus hemagglutinin protein (MVH, Edmonston strain). Soluble monomeric and dimeric MVH variants were prepared ... More
Insertional mutagenesis and immunochemical analysis of visual arrestin interaction with rhodopsin.
Authors: Dinculescu Astra; McDowell J Hugh; Amici Stephanie A; Dugger Donald R; Richards Nigel; Hargrave Paul A; Smith W Clay;
Journal:J Biol Chem
PubMed ID:11809770
Visual arrestin inactivates the phototransduction cascade by specifically binding to light-activated phosphorylated rhodopsin. This study describes the combined use of insertional mutagenesis and immunochemical approaches to probe the structural determinants of arrestin function. Recombinant arrestins with insertions of a 10-amino acid c-Myc tag (EQKLISEEDL) were expressed in yeast and characterized. ... More
Yeast Expression and NMR Analysis of the Extracellular Domain of Muscle Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor alpha Subunit.
Authors: Yao Yun; Wang Junmei; Viroonchatapan Nitnara; Samson Avraham; Chill Jordan; Rothe Elizabeth; Anglister Jacob; Wang Zuo-Zhong;
Journal:J Biol Chem
PubMed ID:11812776
The alpha subunit of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AChR) from Torpedo electric organ and mammalian muscle contains high affinity binding sites for alpha-bungarotoxin and for autoimmune antibodies in sera of patients with myasthenia gravis. To obtain sufficient materials for structural studies of the receptor-ligand complexes, we have expressed part of ... More