Antigenhit
Antigenhit is not a standard term in immunology; in many sources, "antigen hit" or the concatenated form "antigenhit" is used informally to denote a candidate antigen that yields a positive result in a screening assay. It refers to an antigen or epitope that shows binding, recognition, or immunogenic potential in an experimental setting, with precise interpretation depending on the assay used and the study context.
In antigen discovery, hits arise from high-throughput approaches such as phage display, peptide or protein microarrays,
Interpreting an antigen hit requires caution: a positive result in one assay may not translate to in
See also: antigen discovery, immunoinformatics, high-throughput screening, epitope mapping.