Engineering of a single-chain variable-fragment (scFv) antibody specific for the stolbur phytoplasma (mollicute) and its expression in Escherichia coli and tobacco plants

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 4566-4572

  Le Gall, Fabrice ^a   Bové, Joseph Marie ^a   Garnier, Monique ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FRAGMENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; HYBRIDOMA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MOLLICUTES; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PLANT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLLICUTES; NEGIBACTERIA; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PHYTOPLASMA; POSIBACTERIA; STOLBUR PHYTOPLASMA;

EID: 0031733576     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.11.4566-4572.1998     Document Type: Article

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