epitope
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of epitope
Example Sentences
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The translocatable Tmab-PMPC100 was the best at efficient blood-brain barrier penetration while retaining trastuzumab's epitope recognition, the ability of the antibody to bind to its antigen target.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 3, 2024
The word "epitope" means the substance that the immune system recognizes and protects against.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2022
Others, such as epitope tagging, use antibodies to track marked proteins, revealing their location and abundance in cells and providing hints about their function.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 21, 2022
Note that recognition occurs at a specific epitope rather than on the entire antigen; for this reason, epitopes are known as “antigenic determinants.”
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
This mAb, derived from B cells of a patient who recovered from SARS-1 in 2003, targets an epitope on the S protein that is conserved in the sarbecovirus family.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 6, 2022
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