In vivo protection against Tityus serrulatus scorpion venom by antibodies raised against a discontinuous synthetic epitope

Vaccine

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1168-1176

  Duarte, Clara Guerra ^a   Alvarenga, Larissa Magalhães ^a   Dias Lopes, Camila ^a   Machado de Ávila, Ricardo Andrés ^a   Nguyen, Christophe ^b   Molina, Frank ^b   Granier, Claude ^b   Chávez Olórtegui, Carlos ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Epitope mapping; Neutralization; Synthetic discontinuous epitope; Tityus toxins

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE; EPITOPE; GLYCINE; OCTADECAPEPTIDE; OVALBUMIN; OVALBUMIN GLYCYLARGINYLGLUTAMYLGLYCYLTYROSYLPROLYLALANYLASPARTYLGLYCYLGLYCYL GLYCYLLEUCYLPROLYLASPARTYLSERYLVALYLLYSYLISOLEUCINE; PEPTIDE; TITYUS TOXIN; TOXIN ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITOPE MAPPING; FEMALE; IMMUNITY; IN VIVO STUDY; LETHAL DOSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE MAPPING; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOMAL FRAMESHIFTING;

ANIMALS; ANTITOXINS; BITES AND STINGS; EPITOPES; HUMANS; MICE; OLIGOPEPTIDES; RABBITS; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS;

EID: 74349102619     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2009.11.039     Document Type: Article

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