Selective cloning, characterization, and production of the Culicoides nubeculosus salivary gland allergen repertoire associated with equine insect bite hypersensitivity

Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology

Volumn 139, Issue 2-4, 2011, Pages 200-209

  Schaffartzik, Anna ^a,b   Marti, Eliane ^b   Torsteinsdottir, Sigurbjörg ^c   Mellor, Philip S ^d   Crameri, Reto ^a   Rhyner, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^d INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Culicoides nubeculosus; Horse; IgE; Insect bite hypersensitivity; Phage surface display; Recombinant allergens

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HEXAHISTIDINE; HYBRID PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MESSENGER RNA; RECOMBINANT ALLERGEN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CLONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULICOIDES; DATA BASE; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HORSE; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; IN VIVO STUDY; INSECT BITE; INTRACUTANEOUS TEST; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENESIS; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SALIVARY GLAND; SEROLOGY; SERUM; SKIN TEST; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; GENE LIBRARY; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; INTRADERMAL TESTS; MICE; PROTEIN BINDING; SALIVARY GLANDS; SKIN TESTS;

CULICOIDES NUBECULOSUS; EQUIDAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEXAPODA;

EID: 78650901396     PISSN: 01652427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetimm.2010.10.015     Document Type: Article

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