Cloning, recombinant expression and activity studies of a major allergen "enolase" from the fungus Curvularia lunata

Journal of Clinical Immunology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 360-369

  Sharma, Vidhu ^a,c   Gupta, Ratna ^a   Jhingran, Anupam ^a,c   Singh, Bhanu Pratap ^a   Sridhara, Susheela ^a   Gaur, Shailendra Nath ^b   Arora, Naveen ^a  

^a CSIR INSTITUTE OF GENOMICS AND INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Curvularia; Enolase; Epitope; rCur l 2; Recombinant

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOKINE; ENOLASE; EPITOPE; FUNGAL ENZYME; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; RECOMBINANT ENZYME;

ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL INCLUSION; CELL STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURVULARIA LUNATA; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SERUM; SUPERNATANT; TH2 CELL;

ALLERGENS; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOKINES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EPITOPES, B-LYMPHOCYTE; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHOSPHOPYRUVATE HYDRATASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 33745930492     PISSN: 02719142     EISSN: 15732592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10875-006-9032-4     Document Type: Article

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