The hsp60 gene of the human pathogenic fungus Coccidioides immitis encodes a T-cell reactive protein

Gene

Volumn 199, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 83-91

  Thomas, Pei W ^a   Wyckoff, Elizabeth E ^b   Pishko, Elizabeth J ^c   Yu, Jieh Juen ^a   Kirkland, Theo N ^d   Cole, Garry T ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fungal respiratory pathogen; Genomic cDNA sequences; Protein expression immunolocalization; Protein homology; Southern Northern hybridization

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL WALL; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENE NUMBER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; INTRON; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL WALL; CHAPERONIN 60; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COCCIDIOIDES; CYTOPLASM; DNA, FUNGAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, FUNGAL; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0030756513     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00351-X     Document Type: Article

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