Abbreviation/Term
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Definition
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AIDA |
Antibody–antigen interaction-dependent apoptosis |
Abd technology |
Antibody-derived compound technology |
Affimer |
Small non-antibody proteins that bind antigens |
Biodegrader |
An intracellular antibody engineered as a fusion with an E3 ligase for targeted protein degradation of a target protein |
CDR |
Antibody-complementarity-determining regions |
CPPs |
Cell-penetrating peptides |
CP3 |
Caspase 3 |
DARPins |
Designed ankyrin repeat proteins |
EBV |
Epstein–Barr virus |
epitope |
Antigen-binding amino acids that interact with antibody paratope |
Rule of 5 |
Empirical rules for parameters of drug-like properties of compounds. See [53] |
H and L chain |
Antibody heavy and light chains |
HIV |
Human immunodeficiency virus |
iDAb |
Intracellular domain antibody |
IgG |
Immunoglobulin G-class antibody |
LNP |
Lipid nanoparticle |
macrodrug |
An intracellular antibody used as a drug per se
|
monobody |
Synthetic proteins based on fibronectin type III domain |
nanobody |
Camelid VHH fragments |
NLS |
Nuclear localisation signal |
paratope |
Antibody-binding amino acids that interact with antigenic epitope |
PPI |
Protein–protein interaction |
PROTAC |
Proteolysis-targeting chimeric |
scFv |
Single-chain fragment variable |
SIT technology |
Suicide (or silencing) intrabody technology |
V region |
Antibody variable region |
VNAR
|
Shark heavy-chain V region |
warhead |
Generic term for effector region fused to intracellular antibodies instead of the Fc region of immunoglobulin |