Abstract
Antibodies or immunoglobulin are glycoproteins produced by B-cells and play a central role in host immune defense. The immune response to any given antigen is diverse, comprising different antibodies exhibiting different affinities and/or epitope specificities. The conventional antibodies consist of a heavy (H) chain and a light (L) chain, each containing variable and constant regions. In Camelidae (camels and llamas) apart from the conventional antibodies, additional class of functional antibodies consisting of only heavy chains (HCAbs) is also present . The antigen (Ag)-binding site of these antibodies is composed solely of variable domain (VHH) with a mass of 15000 Da.
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Ray Banerjee, E. (2016). Figures of Quantifiable Data in Support of Achieved Goals. In: Perspectives in Translational Research in Life Sciences and Biomedicine. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0989-1_12
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