Article
Antibodies that are specific for a single amino acid interchange in a protein epitope use structurally distinct variable regions.
1 Sept 1991
Abstract excerpt
We have analyzed how the immune system generates antibodies that are specific for analogues of an epitope on the influenza virus hemagglutinin (HA) that differ solely by the presence of Asp or Gly at amino acid 225. Most antibodies induced in response to HA(Asp225) use one of a few closely related variable (V) region structures that are encoded by characteristic VH/Vk gene segment combinations. Remarkably, none...
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