Identification of CD4+ T cell epitopes in C. burnetii antigens targeted by antibody responses

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Chen, Chen ^a   Dow, Courtney ^b   Wang, Peng ^b   Sidney, John ^b   Read, Amanda ^c   Harmsen, Allen ^c   Samuel, James E ^a   Peters, Bjoern ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL VACCINE; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA BURNETII; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSPOT ASSAY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PREDICTION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; Q FEVER; VACCINATION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; STAINING;

COXIELLA BURNETII; MURINAE; MUS; NEGIBACTERIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODY FORMATION; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL VACCINES; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; COXIELLA BURNETII; EPITOPES, T-LYMPHOCYTE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTERFERON-GAMMA; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; STAINING AND LABELING; VACCINATION;

EID: 79952667036     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017712     Document Type: Article

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