抗體，也叫免疫球蛋白（Ig），是一種能特異性結合抗原的糖蛋白，而抗原是在易感染動物體內引發抗體產生的物質。在體內，抗體是由于外源性分子的侵襲而產生的。抗體以一個或者多個Y字形單體存在，每個Y字形單體由4條多肽鏈組成，包含兩條相同的重鏈和兩條相同的輕鏈。輕鏈和重鏈是根據它們的分子量大小來命名的。Y字形結構的頂端是可變區，為抗原結合部位。任何一個抗體的輕鏈都可以分為κ或λ型（基于小分子多肽結構上的差異），每一個抗體的重鏈則決定了它的類或型。
This gene has been reported in PMID 9403053 as one of several tumor-suppressing subtransferable fragments located in the imprinted gene domain of 11p15.5, an important tumor-suppressor gene region. Alterations in this region have been associated with the Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome, Wilms tumor, rhabdomyosarcoma, adrenocortical carcinoma, and lung, ovarian, and breast cancer. Alignment of this gene to genomic sequence data suggests that this gene resides on chromosome 2 rather than chromosome 11. [provided by RefSeq, Dec 2008]
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