Antigen Antibody Interactions (1976) (Lecture Notes in Biomathematics #8)
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- Synopsis
- 1. 1 Organization of the Immune System One of the most important survival mechanisms of vertebrates is their ability to recognize and respond to the onslaught of pathogenic microbes to which they are conti- ously exposed. The collection of host cells and molecules involved in this recognition 12 response function constitutes its immune system. In man, it comprises about 10 cells 20 (lymphocytes) and 10 molecules (immunoglobulins). Its ontogenic development is c- strained by the requirement that it be capable of responding to an almost limitless variety of molecular configurations on foreign substances, while simultaneously remaining inert to those on self components. It has thus evolved to discriminate, with exquisite precision, between molecular patterns. The foreign substances which induce a response, called antigens, are typically large molecules such as proteins and polysaccharides. The portions of these with which immunoglobulins interact are called epitopes or determinants. A typical protein epitope may consist of a configuration formed by the spatial arrangements of four or five amino acids and have an average linear dimension of about 20 A.
- Copyright:
- 1976
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- ISBN-13:
- 9783642930447
- Related ISBNs:
- 9783540076971
- Publisher:
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Date of Addition:
- 07/21/22
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- Language:
- English
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- Nonfiction, Mathematics and Statistics
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