Bacterial Expression of a Human Monoclonal Antibody-Alkaline Phosphatase Conjugate Specific for Entamoeba histolytica

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 216-218

  Tachibana, Hiroshi ^a   Takekoshi, Masataka ^a   Cheng, Xun Jia ^a   Nakata, Yuta ^a   Takeuchi, Tsutomu ^b   Ihara, Seiji ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANTIBODY; ANTIBODY CP33; HISTIDINE; HYBRID PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN F(AB) FRAGMENT; LECTIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMEBIASIS; ARTICLE; CONJUGATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPRESSION VECTOR; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPHOZOITE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, RECOMBINANT; DYSENTERY, AMEBIC; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FAB FRAGMENTS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

EID: 0345866942     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.11.1.216-218.2004     Document Type: Article

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