The dominant epitope of Borrelia garinii outer surface protein C recognized by sera from patients with neuroborreliosis has a surface-exposed conserved structural motif

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 4073-4079

  Mathiesen, Marianne J ^a   Holm, Arne ^b   Christiansen, Michael ^a   Blom, Jens ^a   Hansen, Klaus ^a   Østergaard, SØren ^b,c   Theisen, Michael ^a  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c Novo Research Institute   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; EPITOPE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROLINE; PROTEIN C;

ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA INFECTION; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYME DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SERUM; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0031715109     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/.66.9.4073-4079.1998     Document Type: Article

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