Could somebody please just give me a very simple one sentence description/purpose of each of the following parts of an antibody please... I’ve just been researching it and I don’t think I’m really grasping any info
-Light chain
-Heavy chain
-Heavy chain bridges
-Phagocyte attracting region
-constant region
-variable region
I know that’s a lot but I virtually have no idea about any of those things. The full extent of my knowledge is, like, an antibody will bind with a specific antigen and agglutinate and immobilise it to allow other cells like T cells to destroy it
You don’t need to be able to define any of them. You just need to be able to draw and label it. Actually, give me a minute and I’ll edit a diagram into this post
diagram (excuse my dodgy drawing skills)
So yeah, so long as you can draw and label that then you’re fine. Could probably do a much simpler version (like I think you’d be fine if you just did a line representing each of the four peptides it’s made of).
Not sure if you actually need to know about the constant and variable regions but it’s pretty simple. The part that changes between antibodies is their binding site, so that’s the variable region. The rest of the antibody is the same so it’s the constant region.