Abstract
© 2014 Nature America, Inc. All rights reserved. Antibodies (or immunoglobulins) are crucial for defending organisms from pathogens, but they are also key players in many medical, diagnostic and biotechnological applications. The ability to predict their structure and the specific residues involved in antigen recognition has several useful applications in all of these areas. Over the years, we have developed or collaborated in developing a strategy that enables researchers to predict the 3D structure of antibodies with a very satisfactory accuracy. The strategy is completely automated and extremely fast, requiring only a few minutes (~10 min on average) to build a structural model of an antibody. It is based on the concept of canonical structures of antibody loops and on our understanding of the way light and heavy chains pack together.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2771-2783 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Nature Protocols |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 6 2014 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01Acknowledgements: The authors are grateful to all the members of the Sapienza University of Rome Biocomputing Group for their help and assistance. We are thankful to the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) for financial support.
This publication acknowledges KAUST support, but has no KAUST affiliated authors.