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Antibody-directed drug discovery

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By harnessing the remarkable power of the immune system to access the three-dimensional chemical information sequestered in target sites for drug ligands, antibody-directed drug discovery speeds the design of new therapeutic entities.

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  1. Vice President for Research and Development, ImmunoPhar-maceutics, Inc., 11011 Via Frontera, San Diego, California, 92127, USA

    M. E. Wolff

  2. Professor and Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry, University of California, Riverside, USA

    A. McPherson

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Wolff, M., McPherson, A. Antibody-directed drug discovery. Nature 345, 365–366 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1038/345365a0

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