Monoclonal Antibodies as Therapeutic Agents What are antibodies? Antibodies are ideal for the use in drug therapies because they are very specific in the functions that they carry out in biological systems. They can be described as Y-shaped proteins that consist of four polypeptide chains. Residing in the arms of the Y are two identical light polypeptide chains and the stem of the Y consists of two heavy polypeptide chains. The light polypeptide chains that …showed first 75 words of 2072 total…

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