Antibodies 101: Isotypes
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Blog Post
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Oct. 19, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
..., but it’s also found in tissues. IgG is the predominant isotype during a secondary immune response, which...switching is caused by a specialized type of DNA recombination. Heavy chain constant genes are clustered together...
Figure 2: Isotype switching requires DNA recombination of the antibody gene locus. B cells start by...heavy-chain constant domain gene cluster. DNA recombination can delete intervening heavy-chain constant ...