Antibody Engineering Volume 2

Bioinformatics of Antigen-binding Sites.- Analysis of Single Chain Antibody Sequences Using the VBASE2 Fab Analysis Tool.- Standardized Sequence and Structure Analysis of Antibody Using IMGT®.- Protein Sequence and Structure Analysis of Antibody Variable Domains.- Generation of Antibody Fragments and Their Derivatives.- scFv by Two-Step Cloning.- Bivalent Diabodies.- Generation of Single-Chain Fv Fragments and Multivalent Derivatives scFv-Fc and scFv-CH3 (Minibodies).- Miniantibodies.- Generation of Stably Transfected Eukaryotic Cell Lines Producing ImmunoRNAse Fusion Proteins.- Antibody-Cytokine Fusion Proteins with Members of the TNF-Family.- Recombinant Immunotoxins for Treating Cancer.- T Bodies.- Expressing Intrabodies in Mammalian Cells.- Phenotypic Knockdown with Intrabodies.- Disulfide-Stabilized Fv Fragments.- PEGylation of Antibody Fragments to Improve Pharmacodynamics and Pharmacokinetics.- Fusion Proteins with Improved PK.- In Vivo Biotinylated scFv Fragments.- Bispecific Diabodies and Single-Chain Diabodies.- Generation and Characterization of a Dual Variable Domain Immunoglobulin (DVD-Ig(TM)) Molecule.- Isolation of Antigen-Specific Nanobodies.- CDR-FR Peptides.- Production of Antibody Fragments.- Purification and Characterization of His-Tagged Antibody Fragments.- Production of Antibody Fragments in the Gram-Positive Bacterium Bacillus megaterium.- Analysis and Purification of Antibody Fragments Using Protein A, Protein G, and Protein L.- Purification and Analysis of Strep-tagged Antibody-Fragments.- Production of Antibodies and Antibody Fragments in Escherichia coli.- Improving Expression of scFv Fragments by Co-expression of Periplasmic Chaperones.- Bioreactor Production of scFv Fragments in Pichia pastoris.- Expression of Antibody Fragments in Transgenic Plants.- Transient Production of scFv-Fc Fusion Proteins in Mammalian Cells.- Recombinant Antibody Molecules in Nanobiotechnology and Proteomics.- Immunoliposomes.- Targeted Polymeric

Roland Kontermann obtained his PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Heidelberg. After working as a postdoc in the laboratory of Sir Gregory Winter at the MRC Centre for Protein Engineering, Cambridge, UK, he was a group leader at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Tumor Biology of the University of Marburg, and subsequently Head of Research at vectron therapeutics AG. Since 2004 he is Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Institute of Cell Biology and Immunology of the University of Stuttgart. Current research focuses on the development of recombinant bispecific and bifunctional antibody molecules, including half-life extension strategies, and targeted nanoparticulate carrier systems for tumor therapy. He has over 60 scientific publications and co-editor (together with Stefan Dübel) of the Antibody Engineering Lab Manual.