CHIME proteins

• Intact IgG, 1IGY.pdb
• IgA fragment, 1IGA.pdb
• IgM Fv fragment, 1IGM.pdb
• IgE Fc fragment (theoretical model), 2IGE.pdb

Web Links

• PDB search site
• A Collection of Images of Ig Structures
• Aspects of Immunoglobulin Structure
• Structural Classification of Proteins (SCOP), Immunoglobulins
• Texas A & M University, Antibody Production, Regulation, and Diversity

Further Reading

1. Immunoglobulins (Chapter 4) in R. A. Goldsby, T. J. Kindt, and B. A. Osborne. Kuby Immunology, 4th edition, W. H. Freeman and Co., pp. 83-113 and 149-172, 2000.
2. H. Lodish, A. Berk, S. L. Zipursky. P. Matzudaira, D. Baltimore and J. Darnell. Molecular Cell Biology, 4th edition, W. H. Freeman and Co.,  pp. 70-71 and 315-318, 1999.
3. B. Purves, G. Orians, C. Heller and D. Sadava. Life - The Science of Biology, 5th edition, Sinauer and W. H. Freeman and Co., pp. 412-414, 1998.
4. L. Stryer. Biochemistry,4th edition, W. H. Freeman and Co. pp. 361-389, 1995.

Acknowledgements

• Virginia Scofield, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.