Aspects of antigen mimicry revealed by immunization with a peptide mimetic of Cryptococcus neoformans polysaccharide

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 161, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1829-1836

  Valadon, Philippe ^a   Nussbaum, Gabriel ^a   Oh, Jin ^a   Scharff, Matthew D ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYSACCHARIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION RISK; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, FUNGAL; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES, ANTIBODY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PEPTIDES; POLYSACCHARIDES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0032529204     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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