HBV core particles allow the insertion and surface exposure of the entire potentially protective region of puumala hantavirus nucleocapsid protein

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 380, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 325-333

  Koletzki, Diana ^a   Biel, Stefan S ^b   Meisel, Helga ^a   Nugel, Elsa ^a   Gelderblom, Hans R ^b   Krüger, Detlev H ^a   Ulrich, Rainer ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antigenicity; Chimeric core particles; Core protein insertion sites; Epitopes; Hantavirus Puumala; Hepatitis B virus; Nucleocapsid protein; Virus like particles

Indexed keywords

CORE PROTEIN; EPITOPE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE INSERTION; HANTAVIRUS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PUUMALA VIRUS; STOP CODON;

HANTAVIRUS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; PUUMALA VIRUS;

EID: 0032970891     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.1999.044     Document Type: Article

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