Fine mapping of the antigen-antibody interaction of scFv215, a recombinant antibody inhibiting RNA polymerase II from Drosophila melanogaster

Journal of Molecular Recognition

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 103-111

  Liu, Zhihong ^a   Song, Danying ^a   Kramer, Achim ^b   Martin, Andrew C R ^c   Dandekar, Thomas ^d   Schneider Mergener, Jens ^b   Bautz, Ekkehard K F ^a   Dübel, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antigen; Drosophila; Epitope mapping; Hypervariable domain; Recombinant antibody; RNA polymerase; Single chain

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; BINDING SITE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EPITOPE MAPPING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MUTAGENESIS; RECOMBINANT GENE; RNA POLYMERASE II;

ALANINE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY REACTIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EPITOPES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FRAGMENTS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAINS; INSECT PROTEINS; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA POLYMERASE II;

EID: 0033103918     PISSN: 09523499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1352(199903/04)12:2<103::AID-JMR447>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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