Conformations of the third hypervariable region in the VH domain of immunoglobulins

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 275, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 269-294

  Morea, Veronica ^a   Tramontano, Anna ^a   Rustici, Mauro ^b   Chothia, Cyrus ^c   Lesk, Arthur M ^d  

^a Istituto di Ricerche di Biologia Molecolare   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^c MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antibody structure; Antigen binding; Canonical structures; Ligand induced conformational change; Loop conformation

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; ASPARTIC ACID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LYSINE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

EID: 0032536197     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1442     Document Type: Article

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