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Mixotope vs Mimotope - What's the difference?

mixotope | mimotope |

As nouns the difference between mixotope and mimotope

is that mixotope is a mixture of very many peptides having closely-related sequences, designed as a synthetic vaccine in cases of hypervariability while mimotope is any biological macromolecule (especially a peptide) that mimics an epitope.

mixotope

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (immunology) A mixture of very many peptides having closely-related sequences, designed as a synthetic vaccine in cases of hypervariability

    • mimotope

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia mimotope) (en noun)
  • (biochemistry) Any biological macromolecule (especially a peptide) that mimics an epitope