Development and immunochemical evaluation of antibodies Y for the poorly immunogenic polypeptide prothymosin alpha

Peptides

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 183-193

  Klimentzou, Persefoni ^a   Paravatou Petsotas, Maria ^a   Zikos, Christos ^a   Beck, Alexander ^b   Skopeliti, Margarita ^c   Czarnecki, Jan ^d   Tsitsilonis, Ourania ^c   Voelter, Wolfgang ^e   Livaniou, Evangelia ^a   Evangelatos, Gregory P ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d Thymoorgan GmbH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hen antibodies Y; Highly conserved mammalian polypeptides; Prothymosin alpha; Prothymosin alpha conjugated to keyhole limpet hemocyanin; Rabbit antibodies G

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN Y; KEYHOLE LIMPET HEMOCYANIN; PROTHYMOSIN ALPHA;

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; EGG YOLK; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HELA CELL; HEN; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RABBIT; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CHICKENS; FEMALE; HELA CELLS; HEMOCYANIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RABBITS; THYMOSIN;

AVES; BOVINAE; MAMMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 30344436998     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2005.07.002     Document Type: Article

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