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Strength in numbers

Nature Methods volume 3, page 4 (2006)Cite this article

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A promising new class of proteins for therapeutic purposes makes an entrance; small in size, with multiple low-affinity binding sites for their targets and many disulfide bonds, they are easy to produce and almost completely nonimmunogenic and ready for a clinical trial.

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  1. Silverman, J. et al. Multivalent avimer proteins evolved by exon shuffling of a family of human receptor domains. Nat. Biotechnol. 23, 1556–1561 (2005).

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Rusk, N. Strength in numbers. Nat Methods 3, 4 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth0106-4a

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