Screening and identification of dominant functional fragments of human epididymal protease inhibitor

Vaccine

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1847-1853

  Sun, Li Li ^a   Li, Jin Tao ^a   Wu, Yu Zhang ^a   Ni, Bing ^a   Long, Ling ^a   Xiang, Yun Long ^a   He, Wei ^a   Liang, Zhi Qing ^a  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Contraception vaccine; Dominant function fragment; Eppin

Indexed keywords

ALANYLASPARAGINYLCYSTEINYLLEUCYLASPARAGINYLTHREONYLCYSTEINYLLYSYLASPARAGINYLLYSINE; ASPARAGINYLASPARAGINYLASPARAGINYLASPARAGINYLPHENYLALANYLGLUTAMINYLSERYLLYSYLALANYLASPARAGINE; CONTRACEPTIVE VACCINE; EPIDIDYMAL PROTEASE INHIBITOR; FREUND ADJUVANT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; LYSYLLYSYLASPARTYLASPARAGINYLTHREONYLCYSTEINYLSERYLMETHIONYLPHENYLALANYLVALINE; PEPTIDE ANTIBODY; PEPTIDE VACCINE; PHENYLALANYLGLUTAMINYLSERYLLYSYLALANYLASPARAGINYLCYSTEINYLLEUCYLASPARAGINYLTHREONINE; PHENYLALANYLVALYLTYROSYLGLYCYLGLYCYLCYSTEINYLGLUTAMINYLGLYCYLASPARAGINYLASPARAGINE; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; THREONYLCYSTEINYLSERYLMETHIONYLPHENYLALANYLVALYLTYROSYLGLYCYLGLYCYLCYSTEINE; TRYPTOPHYLTRYPTOPHYLTYROSYLASPARTYLLYSYLLYSYLASPARTYLASPARAGINYLTHREONYLCYSTEINE; TYROSYLPHENYLALANYLLEUCYLHISTIDYLTRYPTOPHYLTRYPTOPHYLTYROSYLASPARTYLLYSYLLYSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG IDENTIFICATION; DRUG SCREENING; EGG; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; LABOR; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SPERM;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS, MALE; EPIDIDYMIS; EPITOPES, B-LYMPHOCYTE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PROTEASE INHIBITORS; PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; VACCINES, CONTRACEPTIVE;

EID: 75249083143     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2009.11.080     Document Type: Article

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