somatic antigen
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somatic antigen — somatic antigen. См. соматический антиген. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) … Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.
Somatic antigen — A somatic antigen is an antigen that is located on the cell wall of a bacterium. It is different than that of a flagella antigen or a capsular antigen … Wikipedia
somatic antigen — noun : an antigen of the body of the bacterial cell distinguished from flagellar antigen … Useful english dictionary
Somatic hypermutation — (or SHM) is a mechanism inside cells that is part of the way the immune system adapts to the new foreign elements which confront it (for example, microbes). SHM diversifies the receptors that the immune system uses to recognize foreign elements… … Wikipedia
Antigen — Each antibody binds to a specific antigen; an interaction similar to a lock and key. An antigen is a foreign molecule that, when introduced into the body, triggers the production of an antibody by the immune system. The immune system will then… … Wikipedia
antigen — Any substance that, as a result of coming in contact with appropriate cells, induces a state of sensitivity and/or immune responsiveness after a latent period (days to weeks) and that reacts in a demonstrable way with antibodies and/or immune… … Medical dictionary
somatic hypermutation — extremely high frequency point mutations that occur in the genes coding immunoglobulin heavy and light chain V regions during B lymphocyte maturation, leading to the increased affinity of antibodies for antigen seen in the secondary immune… … Medical dictionary
somatic recombination — the rearrangement of genetic material by bringing together a set of inherited, initially separated, DNA sequences by deletion of the intervening DNA; in immature B and T lymphocytes, it is the method by which the variety of genes encoding the… … Medical dictionary
O antigen — n an antigen that occurs in the body of a gram negative bacterial cell called also somatic antigen compare H ANTIGEN * * * [ohne Hauch, q.v.] the lipopolysaccharide protein somatic antigens of gram negative bacteria, important in the serological… … Medical dictionary
Vi antigen — vē ī n a heat labile somatic antigen thought to be associated with virulence in some bacteria (as of the genus Salmonella) and esp. in the typhoid fever bacterium and used to detect typhoid carriers through the presence in their serum of… … Medical dictionary
