Engineered acid-stabile human interferon gamma

Cytokine

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 708-710

  Kontsek, Peter ^a   Waschütza, Gero ^b   Kontseková, Eva ^c   Otto, Bernd ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (Slovakia)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR TOXICOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^c Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Antigenic structure; Bioactivity; Disulphide bond; Human interferon gamma; pH2

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; GAMMA INTERFERON;

ACIDIFICATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISULFIDE BOND; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG STABILITY; DRUG STRUCTURE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0342646932     PISSN: 10434666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cyto.1999.0630     Document Type: Article

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