Analysis of linear B-cell epitopes of the nucleoprotein of Ebola virus that distinguish Ebola virus subtypes

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 83-87

  Niikura, Masahiro ^a   Ikegami, Tetsuro ^a,b   Saijo, Masayuki ^a   Kurata, Takeshi ^a   Kurane, Ichiro ^a   Morikawa, Shigeru ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; EPITOPE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NUCLEOPROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; EBOLA VIRUS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; VIRAL GENETICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CROSS REACTIONS; EBOLAVIRUS; EPITOPES, B-LYMPHOCYTE; HUMANS; HYBRIDOMAS; IMMUNOASSAY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOPROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0037245995     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.10.1.83-87.2003     Document Type: Article

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