A single-chain antibody fragment specific for the Plasmodium berghei ookinete protein Pbs21 confers transmission blockade in the mosquito midgut

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 195-204

  Yoshida, Shigeto ^a   Matsuoka, Hiroyuki ^a   Luo, Enjie ^a   Iwai, Kuni ^a   Arai, Meiji ^a   Sinden, Robert E ^b   Ishii, Akira ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Malaria; Pbs21; Plasmodium berghei; Single chain antibody; Transmission blocking

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; BACULOVIRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MALARIA; MIDGUT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOSQUITO; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BACULOVIRIDAE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FRAGMENTS; MALARIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SPODOPTERA; STOMACH;

PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; UNIDENTIFIED BACULOVIRUS;

EID: 0032739282     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(99)00158-9     Document Type: Article

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