Differential immunogenicity of a DNA vaccine containing the Streptococcus mutans wall-associated protein A gene versus that containing a truncated derivative antigen A lacking in the hydrophobic carboxyterminal region

DNA and Cell Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 574-581

  Han, Thomas K ^a   Dao, My Lien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,2 DIMYRISTYLOXYPROPYL 3 DIMETHYLHYDROXYETHYLAMMONIUM BROMIDE CHOLESTEROL; BIOTIN; CHOLESTEROL DERIVATIVE; DEXTRAN; DNA VACCINE; EPITOPE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOLOGICAL ADJUVANT; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; PLASMID DNA; STREPTOCOCCUS ANTIGEN; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS ANTIGEN A; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS ANTIGEN A DNA VACCINE; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS WALL ASSOCIATED PROTEIN A DNA VACCINE; SUCROSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WALL ASSOCIATED PROTEIN A;

AGA GENE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CLONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL CARIES; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDROPHOBICITY; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNODOT ASSAY; IMMUNOGENICITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA LEVEL; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; WAPA GENE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, ANTI-IDIOTYPIC; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOTIN; DENTAL CARIES; DEXTRANS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITOPES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENES, MHC CLASS II; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LIPIDS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PLASMIDS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SALIVA; VACCINES, DNA;

EUKARYOTA; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 25144455550     PISSN: 10445498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/dna.2005.24.574     Document Type: Article

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