Identification of the C-terminal region of 70 kDa heat shock protein from Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis as a target for the humoral immune response

Cell Stress and Chaperones

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 177-187

  Amorim, Antonio G ^a   Carrington, Mark ^b   Miles, Michael A ^c   Barker, Douglas C ^b   Cardoso De Almeida, M Lucia ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; EPITOPE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIASIS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNODOMINANT EPITOPES; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIASIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEROLOGY;

EID: 0030224682     PISSN: 13558145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1379/1466-1268(1996)001<0177:iotctr>2.3.co;2     Document Type: Article

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