- In immunology, a
paratope, also
known as an antigen-binding site, is the part of an
antibody which recognizes and
binds to an antigen. It is a
small region...
- T cells. The part of an
antibody that
binds to the
epitope is
called a
paratope.
Although epitopes are
usually non-self proteins,
sequences derived from...
-
binding activity of the
respective antibody. A set of CDRs
constitutes a
paratope, or the antigen-binding site. As the most
variable parts of the molecules...
- each antibody. The
antigenic determinant or
epitope is
recognized by the
paratope of the antibody,
situated at the
variable region of the
polypeptide chain...
-
tagging of
pathogens which display antigens recognised by
their specific paratope. The
binding of
antibodies enhances pathogen identification and recruitment...
- are
created and
released by
plasma B cells. Each IgG
antibody has two
paratopes.
Antibodies are
major components of
humoral immunity. IgG is the main...
- Each of the
branching chains comprising the "Y" of an
antibody contains a
paratope that
specifically binds to one
particular epitope on an antigen, allowing...
- each of the
heavy and the
light chain. The
variable domain contains the
paratope (the antigen-binding site),
comprising a set of complementarity-determining...
- receptor. Such
segments are
called epitopes. Likewise, it is only the
paratope of the
receptor that
comes in
contact with the epitope.
Proteins are composed...
- molecule,
where epitope means an
antigenic determinant. He also
defined the "
paratope" to be that part of an
antibody variable region that
binds to an antigen...
