A recombinant β-1,3-glucanosyltransferase homolog of Coccidioides posadasii protects mice against coccidioidomycosis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 3010-3019

  Delgado, Nelson ^a   Xue, Jianmin ^a   Yu, Jieh Juen ^a   Hung, Chiung Yu ^a   Cole, Garry T ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA 1,3 GLUCANOSYLTRANSFERASE; FUNGUS VACCINE; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; RECOMBINANT BETA 1,3 GLUCANOSYLTRANSFERASE; RECOMBINANT ENZYME; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN RGEL1P; TRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CELL WALL; COCCIDIOIDES; COCCIDIOIDES POSADASII; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESERT; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GEL1 GENE; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFECTION PREVENTION; LUNG MYCOSIS; MACROMOLECULE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPOROGENESIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; UNITED STATES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; COCCIDIOIDES; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; FEMALE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUNGAL VACCINES; GENOME, FUNGAL; GLUCAN ENDO-1,3-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDASE; IMMUNIZATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; VACCINES, SYNTHETIC;

EID: 0038782007     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.6.3010-3019.2003     Document Type: Article

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