A major Sm epitope anchored to sequential oligopeptide carders is a suitable antigenic substrate to detect anti-Sm antibodies

Journal of Immunological Methods

Volumn 220, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 59-68

  Petrovas, Constantinos J ^a   Vlachoyiannopoulos, Panayiotis G ^a   Tzioufas, Athanasios G ^a   Alexopoulos, Charalampos ^b   Tsikaris, Vassilios ^b   Sakarellos Daitsiotis, Maria ^b   Sakarellos, Constantinos ^b   Moutsopoulos, Haralampos M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b Sect Organ Chem Biochem U   (Greece)

Author keywords

Autoantibodies; ELISA; Epitopes; Sequential oligopeptide carriers; Sm autoantigen

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; AUTOANTIGEN; EPITOPE; OLIGOPEPTIDE; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN ANTIBODY; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNTER IMMUNOELECTROPHORESIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC DISEASE;

ANTIBODIES, ANTINUCLEAR; AUTOANTIGENS; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; DRUG CARRIERS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITOPES; HUMANS; OLIGOPEPTIDES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031764902     PISSN: 00221759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1759(98)00146-X     Document Type: Article

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