Expression of bonnet monkey (Macaca radiata) zona pellucida-3 (ZP3) in a prokaryotic system and its immunogenicity

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 140-147

  Kaul, Renuka ^a   Afzalpurkar, Abhijit ^a   Gupta, Satish K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

active immunization; immunoblot; immunofluoreence; recombinant zona pellucida 3; synthetic peptides

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; IMMUNOGENICITY; MACACA; NONHUMAN; OVARY INFLAMMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONTRACEPTION, IMMUNOLOGIC; DIPHTHERIA TOXOID; EGG PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; EPITOPES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENES; GLYCOSYLATION; HAPLORHINI; IMMUNIZATION; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVARY; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RABBITS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWINE; VACCINES, SYNTHETIC;

ANIMALIA; MACACA; MACACA RADIATA; MURINAE; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PRIMATES; PROKARYOTA; SUIDAE;

EID: 0030982976     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199706)47:2<140::AID-MRD3>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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