Twenty years since ‘antibody mimics’ by molecular imprinting
were first proposed: A critical perspective

• Authors: Jenna L. Bowen , Panagiotis Manesiotis , Chris J. Allender
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In February 1993, the group of Klaus Mosbach published their milestone
study in Nature where, for the first time, non-covalent molecular imprints
were employed in a competitive binding assay. In this seminal piece
of work, and also for the first time, they refer to molecularly imprinted
polymers as being ‘antibody mimics’ and hypothesised that these synthetic
materials could one day provide ‘a useful, general alternative to antibodies’.
This perspective article examines how far we have come in the 20 years
since this publication in terms of realising this hypothesis and poses the
question of whether we actually need molecularly imprinted polymers to be
a general alternative to antibodies.

Keywords

EN

Antibody mimic; Molecular imprinting; Plastic antibodies

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Molecular Imprinting
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 1
• Pages: 35-40

Dates

received

12 - 12 - 2012

accepted

15 - 02 - 2013

online

27 - 02 - 2013

Contributors

author

Jenna L. Bowen

• Cardiff School of Pharmacy
  and Pharmaceutical Sciences,
  Cardiff University, King Edward VII Avenue,
  Cardiff, CF10 3NB, United Kingdom

author

Panagiotis Manesiotis

• Department of Chemistry and Chemical
  Engineering, Queen’s University Belfast,
  David Keir Building, Stranmillis Road,
  Belfast BT9 5AG, United Kingdom

author

Chris J. Allender

• Cardiff School of Pharmacy
  and Pharmaceutical Sciences,
  Cardiff University, King Edward VII Avenue,
  Cardiff, CF10 3NB, United Kingdom

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/molim-2013-0001