Comparative genomics of fungal allergens and epitopes shows widespread distribution of closely related allergen and epitope orthologues

BMC Genomics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Bowyer, Paul ^a   Fraczek, Marcin ^a   Denning, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; ENOLASE; EPITOPE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE;

ALLERGY; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS REACTION; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; ORTHOLOGY; SENSITIZATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE DATABASE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES COMPARISON;

ALLERGENS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EPITOPES; FUNGI; GENOME, FUNGAL; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

FUNGI;

EID: 33750255063     PISSN: 14712164     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-7-251     Document Type: Article

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