Bacterial production of dense granule antigen GRA8 of Toxoplasma gondii

Iranian Biomedical Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 145-151

  Babaie, Jalal ^a   Zare, Mehrak ^a   Sadeghiani, Ghazaleh ^a   Lorgard Dezfuli, Mohammad ^a   Aghighi, Zohre ^a   Golkar, Majid ^a  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Dense granule antigen; Escherichia coli; Expression; GRA8; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; DENSE GRANULE ANTIGEN; GRA8 ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IMMUNOGENICITY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TACHYZOITE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY FORMATION; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITOPES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICE; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RABBITS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PROKARYOTA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 69249149702     PISSN: 1028852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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