Modulation of IgE-binding properties of tree pollen allergens by site-directed mutagenesis

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 409, Issue , 1996, Pages 127-135

  Ferreira, Fátima ^a   Rohlfs, Angelika ^a   Hoffmann Sommergruber, Karin ^b   Schenk, Siegfried ^b   Ebner, Christof ^a   Briza, Peter ^a   Jilek, Alexander ^a   Kraft, Dietrich ^b   Breitenbach, Michael ^a   Scheiner, Otto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; POLLEN ANTIGEN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIGEN BINDING; CONFERENCE PAPER; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TREE;

ALLERGENS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PLANT PROTEINS; POLLEN; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0030425042     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-5855-2_17     Document Type: Article

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