Protein conformation significantly influences immune responses to prion protein

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 174, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 3256-3263

  Khalili Shirazi, Azadeh ^a   Quaratino, Sonia ^c   Londei, Marco ^b   Summers, Linda ^a   Tayebi, Mourad ^a   Clarke, Anthony R ^a   Hawke, Simon H ^a   Jackson, Graham S ^a   Collinge, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; EPITOPE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1 ANTIBODY; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 5; ISOPROTEIN; PRION PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ALPHA HELIX; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

EID: 14844339706     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.174.6.3256     Document Type: Article

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