Water Accessibility, Aggregation, and Motional Features of Polysaccharide-Protein Conjugate Vaccines

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 86, Issue 1 I, 2004, Pages 3-9

  Berti, Francesco ^a   Costantino, Paolo ^a   Fragai, Marco ^b   Luchinat, Claudio ^b  

^a CHIRON VACCINES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; POLYSACCHARIDE; VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CONJUGATE; HYDRATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MACROMOLECULE; MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTANT; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; WATER PERMEABILITY;

INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 0346057953     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(04)74078-3     Document Type: Article

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