Reposted by Fer Cofas
🚨 Preprint! Our work complements affinity studies for antibodies (Ab) design
🔹 Mechanostability as design criterion for Abs against viral escape.
🔹 Two-chain topology: H chain bears force, L chain reinforces via inter-chain contacts.
Great work by @fcofas.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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A Comparative Nanomechanical Study of Antibody and Nanobody Binding to SARS-CoV-2 Variants
The receptor-binding domain of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is the principal target of neutralizing antibodies (Abs) and nanobodies (Nbs). Although their thermodynamic binding properties have been ext...