antigen-antibody-network - (Nov/26/2007 )

hallo,everyone,i have a quention about antibody und antigen
what antigen-antibody-network looks like,when the antigen shows 3 different epitope ? Can somebody sketch a bild?

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You mean monovalent- 3 different epitope/antigen? 1: 1 or 1:2.

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yes,can you explain clearly?

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An antibody has two antigen binding sites. It binds either 1 antigen when there is ab in excess, or 2 antigens when antigen is in excess.

Antigen-antibody form networks when there is more than one identical epitope present in an antigen. multiple forms of complexes will arise from the two.

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thanks a lot, i see

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