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Complementarity Determining Regions  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • Three regions (CDR1; CDR2 and CDR3) of amino acid sequence in the IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION that are highly divergent. Together the CDRs from the light and heavy immunoglobulin chains form a surface that is complementary to the antigen. These regions are also present in other members of the immunoglobulin superfamily, for example, T-cell receptors (RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL).

Entry terms

  • Complementarity Determining Region
  • Complementarity-Determining Region
  • Hypervariable Region, Immunoglobulin
  • Hypervariable Regions, Immunoglobulin

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-X5LHS72R-2

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