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Antibodies with a split personality

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Spikes on the surface of HIV to which antibodies can bind are sparse. One of nature's solutions is to sometimes produce antibodies that bind tightly to a spike with one arm and grab another structure with the other arm. See Letter p.591

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Figure 1: Dealing with the problem of epitope shortage.

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  1. Andreas Plückthun is in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland. plueckthun@bioc.uzh.ch,

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