Reply to 'response to Milland et al.: Carbohydrate residues downstream of the terminal galα(1,3)gal epitope modulate the specificity of xenoreactive antibodies'

Immunology and Cell Biology

Volumn 86, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 633-634

  Milland, Julie ^a   Yuriev, Elizabeth ^b   Xing, Pei Xiang ^c   McKenzie, Ian F C ^a   Ramsland, Paul A ^c   Christiansen, Dale ^a   Sandrin, Mauro S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MACFARLANE BURNET INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; CARBOHYDRATE; EPITOPE; GALACTOSYL ALPHA(1,3)GALACTOSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CELL SURFACE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

EID: 56249107659     PISSN: 08189641     EISSN: 14401711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/icb.2008.64     Document Type: Letter

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