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In spite of their widespread applications as therapeutic, diagnostic, and detection agents, the limitations of polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies have enthused scientists to plan for next-generation biomedical agents, the so-called antibody mimetics, which offer many advantages compared to traditional antibodies. Antibody mimetics could be designed through protein-directed evolution or fusion of complementarity-determining regions with intervening framework regions. In the recent decade, extensive progress has been made in exploiting human, butterfly (Pieris brassicae), and bacterial systems to design and select mimetics using display technologies. Notably, some of the mimetics have made their way to market. Numerous limitations lie ahead in developing mimetics for different biomedical usage, particularly for which conventional antibodies are ineffective. This chapter presents a brief overview of the current characteristics, construction, and applications of antibody mimetics.
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This work has been supported by China Nature Science Foundation (grant no. 31572556), Ph.D. Programs Foundation of Ministry of Education (grant no. 20130204110023), and The Key Construction Program (grant no. 2015SD0018) of International Cooperation Base in S&T, Shaanxi Province, China.
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Zhang, X., Diraviyam, T. (2017). Antibody Mimetics, Peptides, and Peptidomimetics. In: Tiller, T. (eds) Synthetic Antibodies. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1575. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6857-2_1
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