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Designed proteins assemble antibodies into modular nanocages – News-Medical.net

With cues from nature, designing functional molecules enables scientists to nanoengineer and customize for specific uses.

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With cues from nature, designing functional molecules enables scientists to nanoengineer and customize for specific uses. For example, designing antibodies that are widely used as therapeutic and diagnostic protein tools may revolutionize the healthcare landscape.  
Image Credit: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.01.406611v1.full.pdf
It is well known that multivalent antibodies increase binding avidity. It also enhances signaling pathway agonism through receptor clustering. However,…

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