Display of an inhibin epitope in a surface-exposed loop of the E. coli heat-labile enterotoxin B subunit

Vaccine

Volumn 16, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 1611-1619

  Sewani, Constance Rufaro ^a   Bagdasarian, Mira M ^b   Ireland, James J ^a   Bagdasarian, Michael ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chimeric antigen; Enterotoxin B subunit; Fertility vaccine; Fusion protein; Inhibin

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN; FOLLITROPIN; FREUND ADJUVANT; INHIBIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SPERMATOGENESIS; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; ENTEROTOXINS; EPITOPES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; INHIBINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RABBITS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; VACCINES, SYNTHETIC;

EID: 0032192692     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-410X(98)00056-5     Document Type: Article

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