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<immunology> That part of an antigenic molecule to which the T-cell receptor responds, a site on a large molecule against which an antibody will be produced and to which it will bind.
See: agretope.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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