RE: The scope of affimers15 Nov 2021 12:41
Great find Ninkynonk. It certainly underlines the long term future of Avacta and affimers especially when it comes to molecular recognition. I like their background section in the advert. Puts a little bit of context for new comers to the field:
"Many viruses bind and enter cells using protruding spike proteins that interact with host proteins and cellular membranes to mediate infection. Viral spikes are prime targets for host immune responses, and antibodies that bind and block critical spike functions are known as neutralizing antibodies, which can prevent infection. In addition, as spikes are unambiguous markers of viral infection, the specificity of spike-antibody interactions have been exploited in terms of disease diagnostics, with spike antibodies forming the basis for diagnostic tests such as lateral flow devices (LFDs) that are familiar objects in the COVID-19 era.
Affimers are renewable, recombinant, molecular recognition reagents with diverse applications within molecular and cellular biology, including the study of protein localization, protein function and protein-protein interactions.
Affimer production is highly scalable and reproducible, and combined with their high stability and target specificity, they represent excellent alternative non-antibody tools for the development of molecular detection assays, such as point-of-care LFDs."
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