Generation of a recombinant 65-kilodalton mannoprotein, a major antigen target of cell-mediated immune response to Candida albicans

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 6777-6784

  La Valle, Roberto ^a   Sandini, Silvia ^a   Gomez, Maria Jesus ^a   Mondello, Francesca ^a   Romagnoli, Giulia ^a   Nisini, Roberto ^a   Cassone, Antonio ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; MANNOPROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGENICITY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0034444895     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.12.6777-6784.2000     Document Type: Article

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