Molecular dissection of an hCG-β epitope using single-step solid phase radioimmunoassay

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 376, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 52-59

  Prasad, Pramod V ^a   Chaube, Shail K ^a   Panchal, Manoj ^b   Chaudhary, Rajesh ^b   Muralidhar, K ^b   Rohil, Vishwajeet ^c   Kumari, G L ^d   Kumar, Anand ^e   Ashish, B ^f   Murthy, G S ^f   Shrivastav, T G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^d Hormone Research Foundation   (India)

^e ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^f Centre of Reproductive Biology and Molecular Endocrinology   (India)

Author keywords

Conformation specific or assembled epitope; hCG; MAb G1G10.1; SS SPRIA

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; ASPARTIC ACID; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; CHYMOTRYPSIN; DIFLUPREDNATE; EPITOPE; HISTIDINE; IMMOBILIZED ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; LYSINE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PHENYLALANINE; POLYPROPYLENE; TYROSINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY COMBINING SITE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME MODIFICATION; EPITOPE MAPPING; HORMONE BINDING; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RECEPTOR BINDING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN; EPITOPE MAPPING; EPITOPES; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY;

EID: 33845446894     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2006.07.013     Document Type: Article

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