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| Name: | Complementarity Determining Regions |
|---|---|
| Description: | 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). |
| Synonyms: |
Complementarity Determining Region; Region, Complementarity Determining; Hypervariable Region, Immunoglobulin; Hypervariable Regions, Immunoglobulin; Complementarity-Determining Regions; Regions, Complementarity-Determining; Region, Immunoglobulin Hypervariable; Regions, Immunoglobulin Hypervariable; Immunoglobulin Hypervariable Region; Regions, Complementarity Determining.
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