A heavy-chain antibody is an antibody which consists only of two heavy chains and lacks the two light chains usually found in antibodies. In common antibodies...
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The immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH) is the large polypeptide subunit of an antibody (immunoglobulin). In human genome, the IgH gene loci are on chromosome...
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single-domain antibodies are much smaller than common antibodies (150–160 kDa) which are composed of two heavy protein chains and two light chains, and even...
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light chain is the small polypeptide subunit of an antibody (immunoglobulin). A typical antibody is composed of two immunoglobulin (Ig) heavy chains and...
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Heavy chain may refer to: Immunoglobulin heavy chain, a subunit of antibodies Heavy-chain antibody, an antibody composed of heavy chains only Heavy chain...
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Immunoglobulin M (redirect from IgM antibodies)
of several isotypes of antibodies (also known as immunoglobulin) that are produced by vertebrates. IgM is the first antibody to appear in the response...
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trifunctional antibodies, as they have three unique binding sites on the antibody: the two Fab regions, and the Fc region. Each heavy and light chain pair is...
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antibody unit consists of four polypeptide chains; two identical heavy chains and two identical light chains connected by disulfide bonds. Each chain...
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Immunoglobulin class switching (redirect from Antibody class switching)
the constant-region portion of the antibody heavy chain is changed, but the variable region of the heavy chain stays the same (the terms variable and...
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Immunoglobulin G (redirect from IgG antibody)
larger quantities. IgG antibodies are large globular proteins made of four peptide chains; two identical γ (gamma) heavy chains of about 50 kDa and two...
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in antibody. In an antibody, the Fab (fragment, antigen-binding) region is formed from the amino-terminal end of both the light and heavy chains of the...
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single-chain variable fragment (scFv) is not actually a fragment of an antibody, but instead is a fusion protein of the variable regions of the heavy (VH)...
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Complementarity-determining region (category Antibodies)
regions (CDRs) are polypeptide segments of the variable chains in immunoglobulins (antibodies) and T cell receptors, generated by B-cells and T-cells...
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Fragment antigen-binding region (redirect from Fab fragment antibodies)
region on an antibody that binds to antigens. It is composed of one constant and one variable domain of each of the heavy and the light chain. The variable...
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Recombinant antibodies are antibody fragments produced by using recombinant antibody coding genes. They mostly consist of a heavy and light chain of the variable...
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Organization and expression of immunoglobulin genes (category Antibodies)
Antibody (or immunoglobulin) structure is made up of two heavy-chains and two light-chains. These chains are held together by disulfide bonds. The arrangement...
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Immunoglobulin E (redirect from Reaginic antibody)
plasma cells. Monomers of IgE consist of two heavy chains (ε chain) and two light chains, with the ε chain containing four Ig-like constant domains (Cε1–Cε4)...
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Joining (J) chain is a protein component that links monomers of antibodies IgM and IgA to form polymeric antibodies capable of secretion. The J chain is well...
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(IgG) antibodies are large heterodimeric molecules, approximately 150 kDa and are composed of two kinds of polypeptide chain, called the heavy (~50kDa)...
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Anti-immunoglobulin (redirect from Anti-IgE antibody)
anti-IgG antibodies that are heavy-and-light chain specific, Fc-part specific, and hinge-part specific. IgM antibodies are the largest antibodies and are...
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Fragment crystallizable region (category Antibodies)
antibody's two heavy chains; IgM and IgE Fc regions contain three heavy chain constant domains (CH domains 2–4) in each polypeptide chain. The Fc regions...
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V(D)J recombination (redirect from Antibody gene rearrangement)
for generation of antibody diversity". Human antibody molecules (including B cell receptors) are composed of heavy and light chains, each of which contains...
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Plasma cell dyscrasias (section Heavy chain disease)
secretes a monoclonal IgM, IgG, IgA, IgE, or IgD antibody, a κ or λ light chain, an α, γ, or μ heavy chain, or, very rarely, fragments of these proteins;...
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Immunoglobulin D (redirect from Immunoglobulin delta-chains)
Secreted IgD is produced as a monomeric antibody with two heavy chains of the delta (δ) class, and two Ig light chains. The function of IgD has been a puzzle...
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technologies use molecular biology techniques to amplify the heavy and light chains of the antibody genes by PCR and produce in either bacterial or mammalian...
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the specific antibody the original cell was generated to produce. Each type of antibody has a different number of light chain and heavy chain pairs. As a...
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IGHV@ (redirect from Immunoglobulin heavy-chain variable region gene)
Ig heavy chain V-III region VH26 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the IGHV@ gene. IGHV is the immunoglobulin heavy chain variable region genes;...
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type of antibodies, which lack the light chain, in addition to the normal antibodies found in other mammals. These so-called heavy-chain antibodies are being...
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acid structure of antibody chains. Polymorphic epitopes can be present on immunoglobulin constant regions on both heavy and light chains, differing between...
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Immunoglobulin heavy constant alpha 1 is a immunoglobulin gene with symbol IGHA1. It encodes a constant (C) segment of Immunoglobulin A heavy chain. Immunoglobulin...
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