Previously unrecognized vaccine candidates against group B meningococcus identified by DNA microarrays

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 914-921

  Grifantini, Renata ^a   Bartolini, Erika ^a   Muzzi, Alessandro ^a   Draghi, Monia ^a   Frigimelica, Elisabetta ^a   Berger, Joel ^b   Ratti, Giulio ^a   Petracca, Roberto ^a   Galli, Giuliano ^a   Agnusdei, Mauro ^a   Giuliani, Marzia Monica ^a   Santini, Laura ^a   Brunelli, Brunella ^a   Tettelin, Hervé ^c   Rappuoli, Rino ^a   Randazzo, Filippo ^b   Grandi, Guido ^a  

^a CHIRON VACCINES   (Italy)

^b NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^c J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; ANTIBODIES; ANTIGENS; BACTERIA; CELLS; DNA; FLUORESCENCE; GENES; PROTEINS;

MICROARRAYS;

VACCINES;

AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; ANTIBODY; BACTERICIDE; CHLORIDE; DNA; IRON; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; MENINGOCOCCUS VACCINE; SULFATE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CHLORIDE TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOST CELL; IRON TRANSPORT; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MOUSE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS GROUP B; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TECHNOLOGY; VACCINATION; VACCINE PRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL VACCINES; BRONCHI; CELL LINE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MICE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS, SEROGROUP B; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS SEROGROUP B;

EID: 0036714329     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt728     Document Type: Article

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