Major species-specific antibody epitopes of the Ehrlichia chaffeensis p120 and E. canis p140 orthologs in surface-exposed tandem repeat regions

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 982-990

  Luo, Tian ^a   Zhang, Xiaofeng ^a   McBride, Jere W ^a,b  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CROSS REACTING ANTIBODY; EPITOPE; GLUTAMIC ACID; P140 PROTEIN; PROTEIN P120; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CROSS REACTION; DOG; EHRLICHIA CANIS; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; HUMAN MONOCYTIC EHRLICHIOSIS; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TANDEM REPEAT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CROSS REACTIONS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; EHRLICHIA CANIS; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; EHRLICHIOSIS; EPITOPE MAPPING; EPITOPES, B-LYMPHOCYTE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 67650410438     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00048-09     Document Type: Article

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