Comparative analysis of glycosylated and nonglycosylated filarial homologues of the 20-kilodalton retinol binding protein from Onchocerca volvulus (Ov20)

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 6329-6334

  Nirmalan, Niroshini ^a   Cordeiro, N J V ^b   Kläger, Sabine L ^a   Bradley, Janette E ^a   Allen, Judith E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RETINOL BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BRUGIA MALAYI; GENE EXPRESSION; GLYCOSYLATION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; BRUGIA MALAYI; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIPETALONEMA; FILARIASIS; GLYCOSYLATION; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RETINOL-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 0032699916     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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