Expression, purification, and characterization of the immunological response to a 40-kilodalton Plasmodium vivax tryptophan-rich antigen

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2576-2586

  Siddiqui, Asim A ^a   Bora, Hema ^a   Singh, Neeru ^b   Dash, Aditya P ^b   Sharma, Yagya D ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MALARIA RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; EPITOPE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 4; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PLASMODIUM VIVAX TRYPTOPHAN RICH ANTIGEN 40; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CYTOKINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY; TRYPTOPHAN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; EXON; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MALARIA; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SCHIZONT; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH2 CELL; TROPHOZOITE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOKINES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALARIA, VIVAX; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 46249099426     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00677-07     Document Type: Article

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