Cloning, expression, and purification of a novel recombinant antigen from Leishmania donovani

Protein Expression and Purification

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 156-165

  Sivakumar, Ramu ^a,c   Sharma, Pawan ^b   Chang, Kwang Poo ^c   Singh, Sarman ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b International Centre of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology   (India)

^c ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

ELISA; Kinesin; Leishmania donovani; Post kala azar dermal leishmaniasis; rK39 antigen; Serodiagnosis; Visceral leishmaniasis

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN; PRIMER DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHILD; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; NASO HEXACANTHUS;

EID: 32644473824     PISSN: 10465928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2005.07.027     Document Type: Article

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