Epitope diversity of hepatitis B virus capsids: Quasi-equivalent variations in spike epitopes and binding of different antibodies to the same epitope

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 355, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 562-576

  Harris, A ^a   Belnap, D M ^a,d   Watts, N R ^a,b   Conway, J F ^c,e   Cheng, N ^a   Stahl, S J ^b   Vethanayagam, J G ^b   Wingfield, P T ^b   Steven, A C ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES   (United States)

^c INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

^d Brigham Young University   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibody antigen interaction; Conformational epitope; Cryo electron microscopy; Discontinuous epitope; Quasi equivalence

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN; EPITOPE; HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN F(AB) FRAGMENT; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; POLYPEPTIDE;

ANTIGEN BINDING; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPITOPE MAPPING; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STEREOSPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; VIRUS CAPSID;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS; MIRIDAE;

EID: 28944446740     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2005.10.035     Document Type: Article

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