Conformations of immunoglobulin hypervariable regions

Cyrus Chothia; Arthur M. Lesk; Anna Tramontano; Michael Levitt; Sandra J. Smith‐Gill; Gillian M. Air; S. Sheriff; Eduardo A. Padlan; David R. Davies; W.R. Tulip; Peter M. Colman; Silvia Spinelli; Pedro M. Alzari; Roberto J. Poljak

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Hypervariable regionAntibodyBiologyEvolutionary biologyComputational biologyGenetics

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Year: 1989
Type: review
Volume: 342
Issue: 6252
Pages: 877-883
Citations: 1178
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                                    Cyrus Chothia, 
                                
                                    Arthur M. Lesk, 
                                
                                    Anna Tramontano
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (1989). 
                            Conformations of immunoglobulin hypervariable regions. 
                            Nature
                            , 342
                            (6252)
                            , 877-883.
                            https://doi.org/10.1038/342877a0
                        

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DOI: 10.1038/342877a0