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antigen-antibody chemical bond? - what type of chemical bond is it? (Feb/11/2009 )

is the chemical bond between antibody and antigen a Van der waals bond?

or is it hydrogen bond?

-Curtis-

Hello

I am not sure if its right to call it a bond.....its noncovalent interactions.

You mght be interested in this paper:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?D...Search=18078803

Best
TC

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