Variable sequences in a mosaic-like domain of meningococcal tbp2 encode immunoreactive epitopes

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 277-283

  Rokbi, B ^a   Maitre Wilmotte, G ^a   Mazarin, V ^a   Fourrichon, L ^a   Lissolo, L ^a   Quentin Millet, M J ^a  

^a Pasteur Merieux Serums et Vaccins   (France)

Author keywords

Antigenic variation; Mosaic gene structure; Neisseria meningitidis; Transferrin binding protein 2

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE STRUCTURE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITOPE MAPPING; EPITOPES; IRON-BINDING PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PEPTIDES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0028810305     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(95)00326-Z     Document Type: Article

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