Structural properties of chimeric peptides containing a T-cell epitope linked to a fusion peptide and their importance for in vivo induction of cytotoxic T-cell responses

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 249, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 895-904

  Lelièvre, Dominique ^a   Hsu, Shiou Chih ^b   Daubos, Philippe ^a   Favard, Cyril ^a   Vigny, Paul ^a   Trudelle, Yves ^a   Steward, Michael W ^b   Delmas, Agnès ^a  

^a CENTRE DE BIOPHYSIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

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

Author keywords

Conformation; Fusion peptide; Immunogenicity; Microspectrofluorometry; T cell epitope

Indexed keywords

CHIMERIC PROTEIN; EPITOPE; HYBRID PROTEIN; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; IMMUNOGENICITY; MICROFLUOROMETRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALIA; MEASLES VIRUS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS; SYNCYTIAL VIRUS;

EID: 0030682479     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1997.00895.x     Document Type: Article

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