The Immune System: 27. Colloquium, 29. April bis 1. Mai 1976

The cells of the immune system generate a large variety of binding sites which differ in their binding specificities and can therefore react specifically with a large variety of ligands. These binding sites are part of receptor molecules, enabling the system to react to the universe of antigens. The classical antigen receptor is the antibody molecule, and accord­ ingly the first session of this colloquium deals with a classical sub­ ject, namely antibody structure. Dramatic recent advances ...