While antibodies share a conserved structural framework, their complementarity-determining region loops are highly variable in size and sequence. Even more variable are the potential ways these loops can be used to interact with antigen. Thus, X-ray crystal structures of antibody Fab fragments and Fab-antigen complexes are critical for a detailed understanding of the antibody-antigen recognition process. This chapter describes the basic procedures necessary for the crystallization and structure determination of antibody Fab fragments by X-ray crystallography. © 2014 Springer Science+Business Media, New York.
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Stanfield, R. L. (2014). Determination of antibody structures. Methods in Molecular Biology, 1131, 395–406. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-992-5_23
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