Expression & immunogenicity of malaria merozoite peptides displayed on the small coat protein of chimaeric cowpea mosaic virus

Indian Journal of Medical Research

Volumn 118, Issue SEPT., 2003, Pages 115-124

  Yasawardene, S G ^a,b   Lomonossoff, G P ^c   Ramasamy, R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SRI JAYEWARDENEPURA   (Sri Lanka)

^b INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL STUDIES   (Sri Lanka)

^c JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Antigenicity; Cowpea mosaic virus; Immunogenicity; Malaria; Peptide epitope; Plasmodium falciparum viral peptide display

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; ANTISERUM; COAT PROTEIN; EPITOPE; MALARIA VACCINE; PEPTIDE; VIRUS VECTOR;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COWPEA; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HOST; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOGENICITY; INFECTION; MALARIA; MEROZOITE; MOSAIC VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PLANT DISEASE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RABBIT; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAPSID PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMOVIRUS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; EPITOPES; GENETIC VECTORS; HIV; MALARIA; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 1; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARVOVIRUS; PEPTIDES; PLASMIDS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RABBITS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUSES;

EID: 0346266176     PISSN: 09715916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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