Strategies for improving vaccine antigens expression in transgenic plants: Fusion to carrier sequences

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 483, Issue , 2009, Pages 275-287

  Escribano, Jose M ^a   Perez Filgueira, Daniel M ^b  

^a Escla Tec Sup Ingenieros A   (Spain)

^b Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas Y Técnicas ^*  (Argentina)

Author keywords

glucuronidase; Canine parvovirus; Peptide vaccine; Plant derived vaccines; Protein accumulation; Rabbit haemorrhagic virus; Recombinant subunit vaccines; Ubiquitin; Tetrameric antigens

Indexed keywords

CANINE PARVOVIRUS; FELINE PANLEUKOPENIA VIRUS; LAGOVIRUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; RABBIT CALICIVIRUS;

ANTIGEN; PRIMER DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; REVIEW; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASMIDS;

EID: 60549084886     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-407-0_16     Document Type: Article

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