cDNA cloning, expression and characterization of an allergenic L3 ribosomal protein of Aspergillus fumigatus

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 86-91

  Saxena, S ^a,b   Madan, T ^a   Muralidhar, K ^b   Sarma, P Usha ^a  

^a CSIR INSTITUTE OF GENOMICS AND INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

ABPA; Allergen antigen; cDNA library; Immunoreactivity; Pathogenic fungi

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; TRICHODERMIN;

ALLERGY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; ASPERGILLOSIS, ALLERGIC BRONCHOPULMONARY; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; AUTOANTIGENS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DRUG RESISTANCE, FUNGAL; GENE LIBRARY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0141539429     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.2003.02257.x     Document Type: Article

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