Characterisation, crystallisation and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of a Fab fragment of a rat monoclonal antibody with very high affinity for the human muscle acetylcholine receptor

FEBS Letters

Volumn 389, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 195-198

  Kontou, Maria ^a,b   Vatzaki, Efstratia H ^a,c   Kokla, Anna ^a   Acharya, K Ravi ^c   Oikonomakos, Nikos G ^b   Tzartos, Socrates J ^a  

^a HELLENIC PASTEUR INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine receptor; Crystallisation; Main immunogenic region; Monoclonal antibody; Myasthenia gravis; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN F(AB) FRAGMENT; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RAT; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030199522     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(96)00579-0     Document Type: Article

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