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What does epitope mean?

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Noun
  1. (biochemistry) That part of a biomolecule (such as a protein) that is the target of an immune response
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In contrast, they recognize epitopes of region A or an epitope present on both chains, A and B, in the event of insulin therapy.
In these cases, immune components induced by one antigen are able to react with all other antigens carrying the same epitope.
A common neutralizing epitope conserved between the hemagglutinins of influenza A virus H1 and H2 strains.
The genes affected are typically those that encode the epitope portion of the H or N antigen.
The epitope is the part of an antigen to which antibodies bind to target a virus for destruction by the immune system.
In all the experiments on native titin, the molecule was attached to two beads, each labeled with an antibody to a different epitope.

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