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Complementarity Determining Regions

"Complementarity Determining Regions" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Three regions (CDR1; CDR2 and CDR3) of amino acid sequence in the IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION that are highly divergent. Together the CDRs from the light and heavy immunoglobulin chains form a surface that is complementary to the antigen. These regions are also present in other members of the immunoglobulin superfamily, for example, T-cell receptors (RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL).


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Complementarity Determining Regions" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Complementarity Determining Regions" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 97 publications over 25 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2001 and 2011 and 2013 and 2015 and 2017 and 2019
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.