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Comparative analysis of human and mouse immunoglobulin variable heavy regions from IMGT/LIGM-DB with IMGT/HighV-QUEST.
Theoretical biology & medical modelling - 3 Jul 2014
Shi Bin, Ma Long, He Xiaoyan, Wang Xiaomei, Wang Peng, Zhou Li, Yao Xinsheng
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BACKGROUND: Immunoglobulin (IG) complementarity determining region (CDR) includes VH CDR1, VH CDR2, VH CDR3, VL CDR1, VL CDR2 and VL CDR3. Of these, VH CDR3 plays a dominant role in recognizing and binding antigens. Three major mechanisms are involved in the formation of the VH repertoire: germline gene rearrangement, junctional diversity and somatic hypermutation. Features of the generation mechanisms of VH...
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