Diverse Fab specific for acetylcholine receptor epitopes from a myasthenia gravis thymus combinatorial library

International Immunology

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1311-1318

  Farrar, Jeremy ^a,b   Portolano, Stefano ^b   Willcox, Nick ^a   Vincent, Angela ^a   Jacobson, Leslie ^a   Newsom Davis, John ^a   Rapoport, Basil ^b   McLachlan, Sandra M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine receptor; Combinatorial antibody; Fab; Myasthenia gravis; Thymus

Indexed keywords

ALPHA BUNGAROTOXIN; AUTOANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN F(AB) FRAGMENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ADULT; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERM LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LYMPHOCYTE CLONE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMUS;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODY DIVERSITY; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; AUTOANTIBODIES; BINDING SITES, ANTIBODY; EPITOPES, T-LYMPHOCYTE; FEMALE; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HUMANS; IMMUNE SERA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FAB FRAGMENTS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PEPTIDE LIBRARY; RATS; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC;

EID: 0030862832     PISSN: 09538178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/intimm/9.9.1311     Document Type: Article

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