A novel approach for screening immunogenic proteins in Penicillium marneffei using the ΔAFMP1ΔAFMP2 deletion mutant of Aspergillus fumigatus

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 262, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 138-147

  Woo, Patrick C Y ^a,b   Chong, Ken T K ^a   Lau, Candy C Y ^a   Wong, Samson S Y ^a,b   Lau, Susanna K P ^a,b   Yuen, Kwok Yung ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Aspergillus fumigatus; Immunogenic protein; Penicillium marneffei

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AFMP1 GENE; AFMP2 GENE; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; DNA SCREENING; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FUNGAL GENE; GENE DELETION; GUINEA PIG; IMMUNIZATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENICILLIUM MARNEFFEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROLOGY; SERUM;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, FUNGAL; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENES, FUNGAL; GUINEA PIGS; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC TECHNIQUES; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOSES; PENICILLIUM; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

ASCOMYCOTA; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CAVIA; CAVIA PORCELLUS; PENICILLIUM MARNEFFEI; PEZIZOMYCOTINA;

EID: 33747672026     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2006.00376.x     Document Type: Article

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