Affinities of mAbs to Tet repressor complexed with operator or tetracycline suggest conformational changes associated with induction

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 258, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 915-922

  Pook, Elisabeth ^a   Grimm, Silke ^a   Bonin, Angelika ^b   Winkler, Thomas ^a   Hillen, Wolfgang ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^b H LUNDBECK A S   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; TETRACYCLINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY AFFINITY; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPERATOR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032534840     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1998.2580915.x     Document Type: Article

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