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Affinity maturation, the process by which an organism's response to infection becomes more specific and more effective over time, occurs after somatic hypermutation of antibody genes in B-cells. This increase in affinity might be a result of the evolution of either specific interactions between antigen and antibody over time (enthalpic factors) or antibody binding site rigidification (entropic factors)...
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