Medical Definition of Antigen-binding site
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In immune network theory, an idiotope, an antigenic site of an antibody that is responsible for that antibody binding to an antigenic determinant (epitope).
Also used of the site on a ligand molecule to which a cell surface receptor binds.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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