immunofocus

English

immunofocus (third-person singular simple present immunofocuses or immunofocusses, present participle immunofocusing or immunofocussing, simple past and past participle immunofocused or immunofocussed)

(immunology) To engineer antigens in order to produce antibodies with desired characteristics
- 1989, Journal für Hirnforschung, page 314:
  Attention was primary antiserum by non-immune serum all immunofocussed on neurocytes.
- 2020 June, Robert J. Ragotte, Matthew K. Higgins, Simon J. Draper, “The RH5-CyRPA-Ripr Complex as a Malaria Vaccine Target”, in Trends in Parasitology, volume 36, number 6:
  Continued efforts to understand and map the most antibody-susceptible epitopes should enable the development of a highly immunofocussed vaccine, designed to neutralize specific and vulnerable regions of the complex.