Diversity Against Adversity: How Adaptive Immune System Evolves Potent Antibodies

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 241-267

  Heo, Muyoung ^a   Zeldovich, Konstantin B ^a   Shakhnovich, Eugene I ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive immunity; B cells; Darwinian evolution; Germinal centers; Immune response; Sequence diversity; Somatic hypermutation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960994072     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10955-011-0241-8     Document Type: Article

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