Search for potential vaccine candidate open reading frames in the Bacillus anthracis virulence plasmid pXO1: In silico and in vitro screening

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 70, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 6817-6827

  Ariel, N ^a   Zvi, A ^a   Grosfeld, H ^a   Gat, O ^a   Inbar, Y ^a   Velan, B ^a   Cohen, S ^a   Shafferman, A ^a  

^a ISRAEL INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRAX VACCINE; GENE PRODUCT;

ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS HALODURANS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; IMMUNOGENICITY; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTHRAX VACCINES; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, BACTERIAL; GUINEA PIGS; IMMUNE SERA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RABBITS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0036893688     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.70.12.6817-6827.2002     Document Type: Article

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