Ig constant region effects on variable region structure and function

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue FEB, 2016, Pages

  Janda, Alena ^a   Bowen, Anthony ^a   Greenspan, Neil S ^b   Casadevall, Arturo ^c  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Constant region; Function; Immunoglobulin; Isotype; Structure; Variable region

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGEN BINDING; BINDING AFFINITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CONSTANT REGION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 84962052836     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00022     Document Type: Review

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