Using standard enzyme - linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) and peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) assays, researchers discovered that unlike previously
described human antibodies to lipids, WR321 did not react with any of 17 other lipids it was tested against, including cholesterol, glycolipids, and other phospholipids such as cardiolipin and phosphatidylserine, but it bound specifically only to two phosphoinositides.
Not exact matches
A physician and cell biologist who won a 1972 Nobel Prize for his work
describing the structure of
antibodies, Edelman is now obsessed with the enigma of
human consciousness — except that he does not see it as an enigma.
The residues altered were selected based on the observation that the three VHH
described herein, B9, A14 and B21, bind to the RSC3 probe that was used to isolate the VRC01 - class of
human CD4 binding site broadly neutralizing
antibodies (Fig. 2) and that previously the introduction of an aromatic residue into the VRC01 - like
antibody NIH45 - 46 resulted in increased breadth and potency [38].
Dr. Caskey and her team
describe the first in
human, phase 1 clinical trial of a first in class fully
human highly neutralizing anti-HIV monoclonal
antibody.
Normal
human lung fibroblasts (NHLF) cells grown in 384 - well Optilux plates were treated with candidate compounds and incubated for 18 hours prior to fixation and staining with Hoescht dye and anti-HMOX1
antibody as
described in Materials and Methods.