Medical Definition of Variable region

1. Those regions in the amino acid sequence of both the heavy and the light chains of immunoglobulins where there is considerable sequence variability from one immunoglobulin to other of the same class, in contrast to constant sequence (C) regions. The V regions are associated with the antigen binding areas. They contain hypervariable regions of particularly high sequence diversity. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Variable Region

varia
variabilities
variability
variable
variable-pitch propeller
variable antigen
variable antshrike
variable antshrikes
variable binding
variable bindings
variable cost
variable costs
variable deceleration
variable gene
variable quantity
variable region (current term)
variable resistor
variable star
variable stars
variable surface glycoprotein
variable tandem repeat locus
variableness
variablenesses
variables
variably
variadic
variance
variance ratio
variances
variant

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