Influence of elastin-like peptide fusions on the quantity and quality of a tobacco-derived human immunodeficiency virus-neutralizing antibody

Plant Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 899-913

  Floss, Doreen M ^a,e   Sack, Markus ^b   Arcalis, Elsa ^c   Stadlmann, Johannes ^c   Quendler, Heribert ^d,g   Rademacher, Thomas ^b   Stoger, Eva ^c   Scheller, Jürgen ^e   Fischer, Rainer ^f   Conrad, Udo ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^f FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND APPLIED ECOLOGY IME   (Germany)

^g SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Elastin like peptide fusion; Human immunodeficiency virus; Microbicides; Plantibodies; Protein trafficking

Indexed keywords

ELASTIN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS ANTIBODY; HYBRID PROTEIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY 2G12; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHO CELL; CRICETULUS; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; GLYCOSYLATION; HAMSTER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; PLANT LEAF; PLANT SEED; SERODIAGNOSIS; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODIES, NEUTRALIZING; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; ELASTIN; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENETIC VECTORS; GLYCOSYLATION; HIV ANTIBODIES; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEEDS; TOBACCO;

CRICETULUS GRISEUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MAMMALIA; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 70449370975     PISSN: 14677644     EISSN: 14677652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7652.2009.00452.x     Document Type: Article

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