Identification of an epitope of a recombinant Onchocerca volvulus protein that induces corneal pathology

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 123-135

  Pearlman, Eric ^a   Diaconu, Eugenia ^a   Hazlett Jr , Fred E ^a   Merriweather, Anthony ^b   Unnasch, Thomas R ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Corneal pathology; Onchocerciasis; Protein disulfide isomerase; Sclerosing keratitis

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN DISULFIDE ISOMERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CORNEA DISEASE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; KERATITIS; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN INDUCTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; CARRIER PROTEINS; CORNEA; EPITOPE MAPPING; IMMUNODOMINANT EPITOPES; KERATITIS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS, OCULAR; PEPTIDES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS;

EID: 0030848722     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(97)00112-6     Document Type: Article

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