Polysaccharide binding potential of the human A2 or A18 kappa light chain homologues

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 994-997

  Reason, Donald C ^a   Wagner, T Charis ^a,b   Tang, Vanessa R ^a   Moulton, Karen D ^a   Lucas, Alexander H ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OAKLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BAYER AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE A; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN STRUCTURE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032915822     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.2.994-997.1999     Document Type: Article

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