A Major Hindrance in Antibody Affinity Maturation Investigation: We Never Succeeded in Falsifying the Hypothesis of Single-Step Selection
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1 Systems Immunology Laboratory, Department of Biology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany 2 Research Center ImmunoSciences, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany 3 Area of Immunology, Faculty of Biology, Biomedical Research Center (CINBIO), Universidade de Vigo, Vigo, Spain 4 Instituto Biomédico de Vigo, Vigo, Spain 5 Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal *Correspondence: [email protected]; [email protected]
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