Development of polyclonal antibodies for detection of aflatoxigenic molds involving culture filtrate and chimeric proteins expressed in Escherichia coli

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 990-995

  Shapira, R ^a   Paster, N ^b   Menasherov, M ^b   Eyal, O ^a   Mett, A ^a   Meiron, T ^a   Kuttin, E ^c   Salomon, R ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^c ISRAEL INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFLATOXIN B1; CHIMERIC PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOULD; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIUM; TOXIN SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALIA; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS PARASITICUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; PENICILLIUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0031033116     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.3.990-995.1997     Document Type: Article

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