Cloning and expression of a leishmania donovani gene instructed by a peptide isolated from major histocompatibility complex class II molecules of infected macrophages

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 182, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 1423-1433

  Campos Neto, Antonio ^a,b   Soong, Lynn ^a,b   Cordova, José L ^b   Sant’Angelo, Derek ^c   Skeiky, Yasir A W ^d   Ruddle, Nancy H ^b   Reed, Steven G ^d   Janeway, Charles ^c   McMahon Pratt, Diane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Department of Epidemiology and Public Health ^*  (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Infectious Diseases Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNIZATION; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIASIS; MACROPHAGE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, STRUCTURAL, PROTOZOAN; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED CBA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0028799938     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: 15409538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.182.5.1423     Document Type: Article

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