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Antibody-specific model of amino acid substitution for immunological inferences from alignments of antibody sequences.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Mar 2015
Mirsky Alexander, Kazandjian Linda, Anisimova Maria
Abstract excerpt
Antibodies are glycoproteins produced by the immune system as a dynamically adaptive line of defense against invading pathogens. Very elegant and specific mutational mechanisms allow B lymphocytes to produce a large and diversified repertoire of antibodies, which is modified and enhanced throughout all adulthood. One of these mechanisms is somatic hypermutation, which stochastically mutates nucleotides in the...
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