Expression and characterization of a recombinant kinesin antigen from an old Indian strain (DD8) of Leishmania donovani and comparing it with a commercially available antigen from a newly isolated (KE16) strain of L. donovani

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 313-322

  Sivakumar, Ramu ^a,b   Dey, Ayan ^a   Sharma, Pawan ^c   Singh, Sarman ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Immunodominant region; Kala azar; Kinesin; Ld rDD8; Ld rKE16; Leishmania donovani

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; RECOMBINANT ANTIGEN; RECOMBINANT KINESIN ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; IN VITRO STUDY; INDIA; LEISHMANIA CHAGASI; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TANDEM REPEAT; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; CATALOGS, COMMERCIAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EPITOPES, B-LYMPHOCYTE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; INDIA; KINESIN; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SEROLOGIC TESTS;

LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; NASO HEXACANTHUS;

EID: 42649130027     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2008.02.004     Document Type: Article

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