Enhanced expression of soluble recombinant tetanus neurotoxin Hc in Escherichia coli as a tetanus vaccine candidate

Immunobiology

Volumn 216, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 485-490

  Yu, Rui ^a   Hou, Lihua ^a   Yu, Changming ^a   Liu, Shuling ^a   Ren, Jun ^a   Fang, Ting ^a   Zhang, Xiaoyan ^a   Chen, Wei ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Enhanced expression; Recombinant TeNT Hc; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM HYDROXIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FREUND ADJUVANT; SUBUNIT VACCINE; TETANUS TOXIN; TETANUS TOXIN HEAVY CHAIN FRAGMENT; TETANUS TOXOID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADSORPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CLOSTRIDIUM; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; LD 50; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFICATION;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, NEUTRALIZING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GANGLIOSIDES; GENE ORDER; MALE; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SOLUBILITY; TETANUS; TETANUS TOXIN; TETANUS TOXOID; VACCINATION; VACCINES, SUBUNIT;

EID: 79952187277     PISSN: 01712985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imbio.2010.09.001     Document Type: Article

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