Expression of toxin co-regulated pilus subunit a (TCPA) of Vibrio cholerae and its immunogenic epitopes fused to cholera toxin B subunit in transgenic tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 307-318

  Sharma, Manoj Kumar ^a   Singh, Nirmal Kumar ^a   Jani, Dewal ^a   Sisodia, Rama ^a   Thungapathra, M ^b,d   Gautam, J K ^b,e   Meena, L S ^c   Singh, Yogendra ^c   Ghosh, Amit ^b,f   Tyagi, Akhilesh Kumar ^a   Sharma, Arun Kumar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

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

^d POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^f Koba Institutional Area   (India)

Author keywords

Cholera; Fusion protein; TCPA; Tomato; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN; CHOLERA VACCINE; FIMBRIA PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; TCPA PROTEIN, VIBRIO CHOLERAE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; NORTHERN BLOTTING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOMATO; TRANSGENIC PLANT; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHOLERA TOXIN; CHOLERA VACCINES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; GENETIC VECTORS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; SOLANUM; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 38349177844     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-007-0464-y     Document Type: Article

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