Conservation and variability of dengue virus proteins: Implications for vaccine design

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Khan, Asif M ^a   Miotto, Olivo ^a,b   Nascimento, Eduardo J M ^c   Srinivasan, K N ^c,d   Heiny, A T ^a   Zhang, Guang Lan ^e   Marques, E T ^c   Tan, Tin Wee ^a   Brusic, Vladimir ^e   Salmon, Jerome ^c   August, J Thomas ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d HEALTH SCIENCES AUTHORITY   (Singapore)

^e DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN; VIRUS PROTEIN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; VIRUS VACCINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENGUE VIRUS; FUNCTIONAL PROTEOMICS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGENICITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL PROTEOMICS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DENGUE VIRUS; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRAL VACCINES;

EID: 56149120245     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000272     Document Type: Article

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