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Why is an antibody represented as `H_(2)L_(2)`?

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Each antibody contains four polypeptide chains .There are two long chains called Heavy chains (H-chains) and two short chains called light chains (L-chains),so the antibody is referred as .`H_(2)L_(2)`
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