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Structures of Preferred Human IgV Genes-Based Protective Antibodies Identify How Conserved Residues Contact Diverse Antigens and Assign Source of Specificity to CDR3 Loop Variation.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 1 Jun 2016
Bryson Steve, Thomson Christy A, Risnes Louise F, Dasgupta Somnath, Smith Kenneth, Schrader John W, Pai Emil F
Abstract excerpt
The human Ab response to certain pathogens is oligoclonal, with preferred IgV genes being used more frequently than others. A pair of such preferred genes, IGVK3-11 and IGVH3-30, contributes to the generation of protective Abs directed against the 23F serotype of the pneumonococcal capsular polysaccharide of Streptococcus pneumoniae and against the AD-2S1 peptide of the gB membrane protein of human CMV....
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