Delineation of epitopes on the Py235 rhoptry antigen of Plasmodium yoelii YM

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 389-395

  Bayele, Henry K ^a,b   Neil Brown, K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antigenic variation; Epitope mapping; Plasmodium; Rhoptry organelle

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; EPITOPE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE LIBRARY; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC SCREENING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM YOELII; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETICULOCYTE; TARGET CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; EPITOPE MAPPING; EPITOPES; GENE LIBRARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM YOELII; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

EID: 34447288487     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: 1574695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695X.2007.00269.x     Document Type: Article

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