BioMedInformatics, Volume 3, Issue 4
2023 December - 20 articles
Cover Story: Human immunoglobulin allotypes are allelic antigenic determinants (or ‘markers’) that are determined serologically on human immunoglobulin (IG) or antibody heavy and light chains. These allotypes have been identified on gamma1, gamma2, gamma3 and alpha2 heavy chains (G1m, G2m, G3m and A2m allotypes, respectively) and on kappa light chain (Km allotypes). They represent a major system for understanding the immunogenicity of polymorphic IG chains in relation to amino acid and conformational changes. WHO/IMGT allotype nomenclature and the IMGT unique numbering for constant (C) domain, with the IMGT Collier de Perles graphical representation, bridge Gm-Am and Km alleles to IGHC and IGKC gene alleles and structures and, by definition, to IG chain immunogenicity, enabling the immunoinformatics of personalized therapeutic antibodies and engineered variants. View this paper - Issues are regarded as officially published after their release is announced to the table of contents alert mailing list .
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