Expression of recombinant mouse sperm protein sp56 and assessment of its potential for use as an antigen in an immunocontraceptive vaccine

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 216-224

  Hardy, Christopher M ^a   Mobbs, Karen J ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fertilization; Immunocontraception; Infertility; Sp56; Sperm antigen

Indexed keywords

SPERM ANTIGEN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CROSS REACTION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOCONTRACEPTION; IMMUNOGENICITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; VACCINE PRODUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; CONTRACEPTION, IMMUNOLOGIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SPERMATOZOA; VACCINATION; VACCINES, SYNTHETIC;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0032923491     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199902)52:2<216::AID-MRD13>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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