A monoclonal antibody that recognizes the predicted tick-borne encephalitis virus E protein fusion sequence blocks fusion

Archives of Virology

Volumn 144, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1035-1039

  Volkova, T D ^a   Vorovitch, M F ^b   Ivanov, V T ^a   Timofeev, A V ^b   Volpina, O M ^a  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^b CHUMAKOV INSTITUTE OF POLIOMYELITIS AND VIRAL ENCEPHALITIDES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; VIRUS INFECTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HORSES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MEMBRANE FUSION; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS;

EID: 0033056480     PISSN: 03048608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007050050566     Document Type: Article

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