High immunogenicity of a hydrophilic component of the hepatitis B virus preS1 sequence exposed on the surface of three virus-like particle carriers

Vaccine

Volumn 26, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 1972-1981

  Skrastina, Dace ^a   Bulavaite, Aiste ^b   Sominskaya, Irina ^a   Kovalevska, Larisa ^a   Ose, Velta ^a   Priede, Dace ^a   Pumpens, Paul ^a   Sasnauskas, Kestutis ^b  

^a LATVIAN BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND STUDY CENTRE   (Latvia)

^b VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Hepatitis B core and surface; Murine polyomavirus VP1; preS1

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGENICITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYOMA VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS LIKE AGENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CAPSID PROTEINS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B VACCINES; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MODELS, MOLECULAR; POLYOMAVIRUS; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; TH1 CELLS; VACCINES, SYNTHETIC; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS; VIRION;

EID: 40849139017     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2008.02.030     Document Type: Article

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