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The site on the surface of an antigen molecule to which an antibody attaches itself.

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  • T cell mimicry and epitope specificity of cross-reactive T cell clones from rheumatic heart disease.
  • Unfortunately, this protein is an obligate tetramer, making it less suitable fur use as an epitope tag than PA-GFP.
  • HVTN said the vaccine candidate was a multi-epitope vaccine developed by Epimmune, a San Diego-based pharmaceutical company.
  • Although these features are inconsequential for the use of DsRed as a reporter of gene expression, the usefulness of DsRed as an epitope tag is severely limited.
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