A monoclonal antibody to Bacillus anthracis protective antigen defines a neutralizing epitope in domain 1

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 4149-4156

  Rivera, Johanna ^a   Nakouzi, Antonio ^a   Abboud, Nareen ^a   Revskaya, Ekaterina ^a   Goldman, David ^a   Collier, R John ^b   Dadachova, Ekaterina ^a   Casadevall, Arturo ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; EDEMA TOXIN; EPITOPE; FURIN; LETHAL TOXIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY 7.5G; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; PROTECTIVE ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; COMPLEX FORMATION; CYTOTOXICITY; FEMALE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MACROPHAGE; MONOLAYER CULTURE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEGRADATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BINDING SITES, ANTIBODY; EPITOPES; FEMALE; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 33745625378     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00150-06     Document Type: Article

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