Determination of preferential binding sites for anti-dsRNA antibodies on double-stranded RNA by scanning force microscopy

RNA

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 563-570

  Bonin, Michael ^a   Oberstraß, Jürgen ^a   Lukacs, Noemi ^b   Ewert, Katja ^a   Oesterschulze, Egbert ^a   Kassing, Rainer ^a   Nellen, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

AFM; Anti nucleic acid antibodies; RNA protein interaction

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA;

ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA BINDING; RNA METABOLISM; RNA SEQUENCE; SCANNING FORCE MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DICTYOSTELIUM; DNA; EPITOPES; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

DICTYOSTELIUM;

EID: 0033994225     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838200992318     Document Type: Article

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