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McPherson published the crystal strcuture of an antibody-antibody interaction and as far as I can understand the explanations, the total size of the complex is approx. 15 nm in length. If you assume that the interaction is nearly planar, one can assume for a single antibody an approx. length of 7.5 nm. But please check the link below with the original article...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=43211&blobtype=pdf
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