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Single-Domain Antibodies and Their Formatting to Combat Viral Infections

Antibodies 2019, 8(1), 1; https://doi.org/10.3390/antib8010001
by Dorien De Vlieger 1,2, Marlies Ballegeer 1,2, Iebe Rossey 1,2, Bert Schepens 1,3 and Xavier Saelens 1,2,*
Reviewer 1: Anonymous
Reviewer 2:
Antibodies 2019, 8(1), 1; https://doi.org/10.3390/antib8010001
Submission received: 30 November 2018 / Revised: 13 December 2018 / Accepted: 14 December 2018 / Published: 20 December 2018
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nanobody)

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Vlieger et al prepared a review article on virus-targeting Nanobodies. The authors are experts in the field and provide a thorough overview on the use of Nanobodies to diagnose and fight viral infections including a well prepared illustration and an informative table. The review article introduces the main aspects of Nanobody generation, their structure and the possibility to arrange them in different formats. The authors further point out how Nanobodies can be equipped with effector functions such as Fc regions to fight viral infections.

 

All in all, the manuscript is well prepared regarding structure, language and style. All major aspects of the chosen topic, including advantages and limitations, are well presented and therefore this manuscript will be a valuable contribution to the scientific community. 

 

Minor point:

 

The authors should check the format of reference #27 since it contains no author names but only initials


Reviewer 2 Report

The authors did a great job in explaining the details of single domain antibodies which is very important to the current field of Vaccine design. I appreciate the authors for their wonderful review manuscript.  

Strengths

1. the authors presented the details in a wonderful way. 

2. the choice of summarizing to the importance of VHH is very impressive.

3. covered most of the details about VHH.

4. the manuscript is well written and readable for all readers.

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