Delivery of antigen-encoding plasmid DNA into the cytosol of macrophages by attenuated suicide Listeria monocytogenes

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 181-185

  Dietrich, Guido ^a   Bubert, Andreas ^a   Gentschev, Ivaylo ^a   Sokolovic, Zeljka ^a   Simm, Andreas ^a   Catic, Andre ^b   Kaufmann, Stefan H E ^b,c   Hess, Jürgen ^b,c   Szalay, Aladar A ^a,d   Goebel, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA delivery; Plasmid integration; Vaccine development

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; GENE PRODUCT; GENTAMICIN; PLASMID DNA; VACCINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031911627     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt0298-181     Document Type: Article

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