Rapid production of the major birch pollen allergen bet v 1 in Nicotiana benthamiana plants and its immunological in vitro and in vivo characterization

FASEB Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1279-1288

  Krebitz, Monika ^a   Wiedermann, Ursula ^a   Essl, Dagmar ^b   Steinkellner, Herta ^b   Wagner, Birgit ^a   Turpen, Thomas H ^c   Ebner, Christof ^a   Scheiner, Otto ^a   Breiteneder, Heimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c Large Scale Biology Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

BALB c; Plant expression system; Recombinant allergen; Th2 response; Tobacco mosaic virus

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; POLLEN ANTIGEN;

ALLERGY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGENICITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TH2 CELL; TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS;

EID: 0033949742     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.14.10.1279     Document Type: Article

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