'Affinity maturation' of ligands for HCV-specific serum antibodies

Journal of Immunological Methods

Volumn 236, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 167-176

  Urbanelli, Lorena ^a   Fortugno, Paola ^b   Bartoli, Fabrizia ^a   Nuzzo, Maurizio ^a   De Tomassi, Amedeo ^b   Felici, Franco ^b   Monaci, Paolo ^a  

^a IRBM   (Italy)

^b Kenton Laboratories   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diagnostics; Epitopes; HCV; Phage display

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

AFFINITY LABELING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHAGE DISPLAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; BASE SEQUENCE; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; DNA PRIMERS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODIES; HUMANS; LIGANDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PEPTIDE LIBRARY;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 0033952143     PISSN: 00221759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1759(99)00238-0     Document Type: Article

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