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Partner

A partner identifies an amino acid (or corresponding cDNA) sequence functionally associated to another different amino acid (or corresponding cDNA) sequence to form a receptor.

By extension, the amino acid (or corresponding cDNA) sequence of each variable domain of a single chain Fragment variable (scFv) is also an instance of the 'partner' concept.

The 'partner' concept is part of the 'IDENTIFICATION' concept of IMGT-ONTOLOGY [1]

Reference:
[1] Giudicelli, V. and Lefranc, M.-P., Bioinformatics, 15, 1047-1054 (1999) PMID: 10745995, LIGM:221