Epitopes of human chorionic gonadotropin and their relationship to immunogenicity and cross-reactivity of β-chain mutants

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 210-214

  Porakishvili, N ^a,b   Jackson, A M ^a   De Souza, J B ^a   Chiesa, M Dalla ^a   Roitt, I M ^a   Delves, P J ^a   Lund, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross reactivity; Epitope; Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG); Luteinizing hormone (LH); Vaccine

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN ANTIBODY; EPITOPE; GLYCOPROTEIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PLACENTA PROTEIN; PLASMID DNA; VACCINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; CROSS REACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOGENICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; ZYGOTE;

EID: 0031825837     PISSN: 87558920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0897.1998.tb00414.x     Document Type: Article

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