Efficacy of antibodies against Escherichia coli expressed chimeric recombinant protein encompassing multiple epitopes of zona pellucida glycoproteins to inhibit in vitro human sperm-egg binding

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 309-317

  Sivapurapu, Neela ^a   Upadhyay, Abhishek ^a   Hasegawa, Akiko ^b   Koyama, Koji ^b   Gupta, Satish K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY   (India)

^b HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

E. coli expression; Hemizona assay; Immuno contraception; Ovum; Zona pellucida glycoproteins

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DIPHTHERIA TOXOID; GLYCOPROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY MA 813; NICKEL; NITRILOTRIACETIC ACID; POLYHISTIDINE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT ZONA PELLUCIDA GLYCOPROTEIN 1; RECOMBINANT ZONA PELLUCIDA GLYCOPROTEIN 2; RECOMBINANT ZONA PELLUCIDA GLYCOPROTEIN 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BASE SEQUENCE; EGG PROTEINS; EPITOPES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MACACA; MACACA RADIATA; MURINAE; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0038350927     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.10252     Document Type: Article

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