Isolation and expression of recombinant antibody fragments to the biological warfare pathogen Brucella melitensis

Journal of Immunological Methods

Volumn 276, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 185-196

  Hayhurst, Andrew ^a,b   Happe, Scott ^a,c   Mabry, Robert ^a   Koch, Zephyr ^a   Iverson, Brent L ^a   Georgiou, George ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c Bio Crest/Stratagene   (United States)

Author keywords

9E10; Biological agent detection; Brucella melitensis; c myc tag; Phage display; scFv

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; CHAPERONE PROTEIN SKP; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FRAGMENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN; MYC PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT ANTIBODY; SINGLE CHAIN FRAGMENT VARIABLE ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY ISOLATION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIBODY STRUCTURE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DEGRADATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GAMMA RADIATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SCREENING; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHAGE DISPLAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SOLUBILITY; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALIA; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; YERSINIA; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0037406621     PISSN: 00221759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1759(03)00100-5     Document Type: Article

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