Tryptophan residue is essential for immunoreactivity of a diagnostically relevant peptide epitope of A. fumigatus

Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Volumn 275, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 223-231

  Kamal, Neel ^a,d   Chowdhury, Shantanu ^a   Madan, Taruna ^a   Sharma, Deepak ^b,e   Attreyi, M ^b   Haq, Wahajul ^c   Katti, Seturam Bandacharya ^c   Kumar, Anil ^d   Sarma, P Usha ^a,f  

^a CSIR INSTITUTE OF GENOMICS AND INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^c CENTRAL DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^d DEVI AHILYA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^e BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^f INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis; Aspergillus fumigatus; BIAcore; Immunoreactivity; Peptide; Tryptophan

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; TRYPTOPHAN;

ALLERGENICITY; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BINDING AFFINITY; BRONCHOPULMONARY ASPERGILLOMA; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION;

ASPERGILLOSIS, ALLERGIC BRONCHOPULMONARY; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BIOREACTORS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITOPES; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDES; SOLVENTS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRIFLUOROETHANOL; TRYPTOPHAN;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS;

EID: 22744458754     PISSN: 03008177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11010-005-2056-x     Document Type: Article

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