Histotope

Quick meaning: Histotope is a noun meaning The portion of an antigen that reacts with or binds to a T-cell.

Meaning

The portion of an antigen that reacts with or binds to a T-cell.

Example Sentences

Thus, a mutation affecting the structure of a class II molecule changes the co-recognition specificity of a histotope on the APC of the mutant.

First, during ontogeny, T cells are positively selected by recognition of the histotope and then negatively selected by a tolerance mechanism or vice versa.

However, this experiment by itself did not distinguish whether the change was in the desetope, which is the most straightforward interpretation, or in the histotope.

Word Forms

• histotopes

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