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Recognition reversal in a spineless scrounger

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The recently deduced structures of amphioxus immune-like receptors provide new insights on what is actually required for antigen recognition by antigen receptors.

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Figure 1: Low-resolution representation of some key differences in domain-domain interactions for classical V domains and the amphioxus VCBP3 V1 and V2 V-like domains.

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    Harry W Schroeder Jr

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