'Epitope fingerprinting' using overlapping 20-mer peptides of the MUC1 tandem repeat sequence

Tumor Biology

Volumn 19, Issue SUPPL.1, 1997, Pages 35-45

  Schol, Dick J ^a   Meulenbroek, Marcel F A ^a   Snijdewint, Frank G M ^a   Von Mensdorff Pouilly, Silvia ^a   Verstraeten, Rob A ^a   Murakami, Fumihiro ^b   Kenemans, Peter ^a   Hilgers, Jo ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epitope analysis; Monoclonal antibodies; MUC1; Peptides

Indexed keywords

MUCIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANALYTIC METHOD; CARCINOMA CELL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA FLANKING REGION; EPITOPE MAPPING; GLYCOSYLATION; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TANDEM REPEAT;

EID: 0031455501     PISSN: 10104283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000056503     Document Type: Conference Paper

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