Are the universes of antibodies and antigens symmetrical?

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 154-156

  Pieczenik, George ^a,b  

^a ART Institute of Washington   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibodies; Antigens; Reproductive immunology; Symmetry

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PEPTIDE; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CODON; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 0038784431     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)61702-6     Document Type: Article

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