Characterization of human T- and B-cell epitopes in the C terminus of Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface protein 1: Evidence for poor T-cell recognition of polypeptides with numerous disulfide bonds

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 3024-3031

  Egan, Andréa ^a   Waterfall, Martin ^a   Pinder, Margaret ^b   Holder, Anthony ^c   Riley, Eleanor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; DISULFIDE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EPITOPE; GAMMA INTERFERON; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ADULT; ALLELE; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BLOOD DONOR; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISULFIDE BOND; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MALARIA; MEROZOITE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0030858803     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.8.3024-3031.1997     Document Type: Article

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