A diepitopic sequential oligopeptide carrier (SOCn) as mimic of the Sm autoantigen: Synthesis, conformation and biological assays

Journal of Peptide Science

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 105-114

  Alexopoulos, Charalampos ^a   Tsikaris, Vassilios ^a   Rizou, Catherina ^a   Panou Pomonis, Eugenia ^a   Sakarellos Daitsiotis, Maria ^a   Sakarellos, Constantinos ^a   Vlachoyiannopoulos, Panayiotis G ^b   Moutsopoulos, Haralampos M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Carrier of the Sm epitopes; Diepitopic sequential oligopeptide carrier; NMR study of SOCn; Sequential oligopeptide carriers (SOC)n; Sm autoantigen; Sm epitopes grafted to SOCn; Sm mimic

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANTIGEN SM; AUTOANTIBODY; AUTOANTIGEN; CARRIER PROTEIN; CROSS REACTING ANTIBODY; CROSS REACTING ANTIGEN; EPITOPE; GLYCINE DERIVATIVE; LYSINE DERIVATIVE; OLIGOPEPTIDE; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN ANTIBODY; RNA; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; TETRAMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CONFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

AMINO ACIDS; ANTIGENS; AUTOANTIGENS; BINDING SITES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITOPES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PEPTIDE BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR;

EID: 0035105813     PISSN: 10752617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/psc.302     Document Type: Article

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