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Influenza virus resistance to human neutralizing antibodies.
mBio - 1 Jan 2012
Crowe James E
Abstract excerpt
The human antibody repertoire has an exceptionally large capacity to recognize new or changing antigens through combinatorial and junctional diversity established at the time of V(D)J recombination and through somatic hypermutation. Influenza viruses exhibit a relentless capacity to escape the human antibody response by altering the amino acids of their surface proteins in hypervariable domains that exhibit a...
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