X-ray crystal structures of birch pollen profilin and phl p 2

International Archives of Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 113, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 109-113

  Fedorov, Alexander A ^a   Ball, Tanja ^b   Valenta, Rudolf ^b   Almo, Steven C ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Allergen; Crystallography; Epitope; Phl p 2; Profilin; Structure

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; PROFILIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; IMMEDIATE TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; POLLEN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ALLERGENS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES, ANTIBODY; CONTRACTILE PROTEINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; EPITOPES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; PROFILINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0030996629     PISSN: 10182438     EISSN: 14230097     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000237520     Document Type: Article

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