I'm a high school student developing an independent research project. If something is off, please feel free to correct me; I need all the help I can got. Thank you
First of all, could somebody please confirm that this is an antibody based off the mu-type opioid receptor?
https://www.drugbank.ca/drugs/DB06317
If the antibody linked above is truly based off the mu type receptor, could I somehow alter its structure to bind to a specific antigen, such as heroin? How would I go about altering the structure, would I literally mess around with the structure or alter the amino acid sequence? How would I go about doing both of those things?
Also, if somehow I am able to alter the antibody to become specific to heroin and treat heroin as an antigen, how would I go about testing the binding rate of heroin to this newly developed antibody? I would need some sort of data to show levels of affinity, what programs or algorithms would I use?
Please feel free to add your own input; I really want to do this project, but I don't know how feasible this truly is. This is something I've become passionate about, so please, please help me if you can.