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摘要

Antibodies are highly specific molecules that can be tailored to recognize almost any stretch of peptide that nature can conjure:a feature that has been exploited for years now to produce therapeutic antibodies.In the most common scenario, an antibody is created that homes in on a particular protein-generally one abnormally expressed to produce a disease condition-binds to it, and blocks its activity.The anti-breast cancer drug Herceptin functions this way, for example.