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The Generative Grammar of the Immune System (Nobel Lecture)
Author(s) -
Jerne Niels K.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition in english
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 0570-0833
DOI - 10.1002/anie.198508101
Subject(s) - generative grammar , polypeptide chain , biochemistry , chemistry , chain (unit) , amino acid , computational biology , cognitive science , philosophy , biology , physics , linguistics , psychology , astronomy
The basic concepts of immunology and their development as part of biology during the last 100 years is the starting point of Niels K. Jerne's lecture, which he presented on the occasion of accepting the 1984 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine. Each half of an antibody molecule consists of a light polypeptide chain containing about 214 amino acid residues and a heavy polypeptide chain containing a little more than 400 amino acid residues.