Upregulated expression of b-cell antigen family tandem repeat proteins by Leishmania Amastigotes

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2138-2145

  Goto, Yasuyuki ^a,b,c   Carter, Darrick ^b,c   Guderian, Jeffrey ^b   Inoue, Noboru ^a   Kawazu, Shin Ichiro ^a   Reed, Steven G ^b  

^a OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b INFECTIOUS DISEASE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Protein Advances Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN; MICROORGANISM PROTEIN; PROTEOME; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TANDEM REPEAT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMASTIGOTE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING KINETICS; BIOINFORMATICS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TANDEM REPEAT; THERMODYNAMICS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; UPREGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; B-LYMPHOCYTES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 77951228266     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01102-09     Document Type: Article

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