Immunodominant peptide epitopes of allergen, Asp f 1 from the fungus Aspergillus fumigatus

Peptides

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1469-1477

  Kurup, Viswanath P ^a   Banerjee, B ^a   Murali, P S ^a   Greenberger, P A ^b   Krishnan, M ^c   Hari, V ^c   Fink, J N ^a  

^a CLEMENT J ZABLOCKI VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis; Aspergillus fumigatus; B cell epitope T cell epitope

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; EPITOPE; FUNGUS ANTIGEN; PEPTIDE;

ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLERGENS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNODOMINANT EPITOPES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PROTEIN BINDING; RIBONUCLEASES; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; FUNGI;

EID: 0032439815     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-9781(98)00113-2     Document Type: Article

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