Immunological relationship between the class I epitope of streptococcal M protein and myosin

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 4418-4424

  Quinn, Anthony ^a,c   Ward, Kent ^a   Fischetti, Vincent A ^b   Hemric, Mark ^a   Cunningham, Madeleine W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; M PROTEIN; MYOSIN; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN BINDING; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; CROSS REACTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOGENICITY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RHEUMATIC FEVER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0031695106     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.9.4418-4424.1998     Document Type: Article

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