Phosphocholine-containing, zwitterionic glycosphingolipids of adult Onchocerca volvulus as highly conserved antigenic structures of parasitic nematodes

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 348, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 417-423

  Wuhrer, Manfred ^a   Rickhoff, Sandra ^a   Dennis, Roger D ^a   Lochnit, Günter ^a   Soboslay, Peter T ^b   Baumeister, Stefan ^c   Geyer, Rudolf ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Glycolipids; On target enzymic cleavage; Parasitic filarial nematodes; Phosphocholine

Indexed keywords

AMPHOLYTE; GLYCOSPHINGOLIPID; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE;

ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH PERFORMANCE THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHYLATION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; ASCARIS SUUM; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; CARBOHYDRATES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; CROSS REACTIONS; FILARIOIDEA; GLYCOLIPIDS; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; GLYCOSPHINGOLIPIDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; SETARIA NEMATODE; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

ASCARIS SUUM; LITOMOSOIDES SIGMODONTIS; NEMATODA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; SETARIA DIGITATA;

EID: 0034213669     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/0264-6021:3480417     Document Type: Article

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