Coccidioides immitis Antigen 2: Analysis of gene and protein

Gene

Volumn 181, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 121-125

  Zhu, Yufan ^a   Yang, Chunmu ^a   Magee, D Mitchell ^a   Cox, Rebecca A ^a  

^a Texas Center for Infectious Disease   (United States)

Author keywords

Fungal intron; Pathogenic fungus; Recombinant DNA; T cell reactive antigen; Tetrapeptide repeat

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; FUNGUS ANTIGEN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE STRUCTURE; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; BASE SEQUENCE; COCCIDIOIDES; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; FUNGI;

EID: 0030605263     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00486-6     Document Type: Article

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