The POM Monoclonals: A comprehensive set of antibodies to non-overlapping prion protein epitopes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Polymenidou, Magdalini ^a,i   Moos, Rita ^a   Scott, Mike ^b,g   Sigurdson, Christina ^a,i   Shi, Yong Zhong ^d   Yajima, Bill ^c   Hafner Bratkoviĉ, Iva ^e   Jerala, Roman ^e   Hornemann, Simone ^f   Wuthrich, Kurt ^f,g   Bellon, Anne ^h   Vey, Martin ^h   Garen, Graciela ^c   James, Michael N G ^c   Kav, Nat ^c   Aguzzi, Adriano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d ALBERTA RESEARCH COUNCIL   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^f ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^g SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^h ZLB Behring   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY POM; PRION PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL DIVISION; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRION DISEASE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY AFFINITY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CROSS REACTION; EPITOPE MAPPING; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PEPTIDE MAPPING; PRION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODY AFFINITY; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CROSS REACTIONS; EPITOPE MAPPING; EPITOPES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ISOTYPES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MICE; PEPTIDE MAPPING; PRIONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 57549096688     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003872     Document Type: Article

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