Toxoplasma gondii: Analysis of the active site insertion of its ferredoxin-NADP+-reductase by peptide-specific antibodies and homology-based modeling

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 103, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 68-77

  Bednarek, Anika ^a   Wiek, Sabine ^a   Lingelbach, Klaus ^a   Seeber, Frank ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANTIBODY; CARRIER PROTEIN; EPITOPE; FERREDOXIN; FERREDOXIN NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE REDUCTASE; FLAVINE ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN; ANTISERUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ALPHA HELIX; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; APICOPLAST; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DATA ANALYSIS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOGENICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULE; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PROTEIN FOLDING; RABBIT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TOXOPLASMA;

TOXOPLASMA GONDII; ZEA MAYS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITOPES; FEMALE; FERREDOXIN-NADP REDUCTASE; IMMUNE SERA; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROTEIN FOLDING; RABBITS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TOXOPLASMA;

EID: 0037810343     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-4894(03)00074-2     Document Type: Article

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