T-cell responses to the trypanosome variant surface glycoprotein are not limited to hypervariable subregions

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 141-151

  Dagenais, Taylor R ^a   Demick, Karen P ^a   Bangs, James D ^a   Forest, Katrina T ^a   Paulnock, Donna M ^a   Mansfield, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; INTERLEUKIN 2; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ALPHA HELIX; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; HELPER CELL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HYBRIDOMA CELL CULTURE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRYPANOSOMA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOKINES; EPITOPE MAPPING; EPITOPES, T-LYMPHOCYTE; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEINS, TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 58449131631     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00729-08     Document Type: Article

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