Use of chimeric recombinant polypeptides to analyse conformational, surface epitopes on trypanosome variant surface glycoproteins

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 53-63

  Hsia, Ru Ching ^a,b   Beals, Thomas ^a,c   Boothroyd, John C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; EPITOPE;

ANTIGEN BINDING; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; CELL SURFACE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IMMUNOASSAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; TRYPANOSOMA;

TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 0030064876     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1996.351878.x     Document Type: Article

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