B cell responses to a peptide epitope. V. Kinetic regulation of repertoire discrimination and antibody optimization for epitope

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 161, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 3510-3519

  Nayak, Bishnu P ^a   Tuteja, Renu ^a   Manivel, Venkatasamy ^a   Roy, Rajendra P ^b   Vishwakarma, Ram A ^b   Rao, Kanury V S ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY ICGEB   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EPITOPE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BINDING AFFINITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOMATIC MUTATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODY AFFINITY; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CLONE CELLS; EPITOPES, B-LYMPHOCYTE; FEMALE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; KINETICS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 0032193186     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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