Identification of B cell epitopes of alcohol dehydrogenase allergen of Curvularia lunata

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Nair, Smitha ^a   Kukreja, Neetu ^b   Singh, Bhanu Pratap ^a   Arora, Naveen ^a  

^a CSIR INSTITUTE OF GENOMICS AND INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; ALLERGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; EPITOPE; HLA D ANTIGEN;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BINDING AFFINITY; COMPUTER MODEL; CURVULARIA LUNATA; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; HYDROPHOBICITY; IMMUNOASSAY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STEREOCHEMISTRY; T LYMPHOCYTE; ASCOMYCETES; BIOLOGY; BLOOD; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ENZYMOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

COCHLIOBOLUS LUNATUS;

ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; ALLERGENS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASCOMYCOTA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITOPES, B-LYMPHOCYTE; EPITOPES, T-LYMPHOCYTE; HLA-D ANTIGENS; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 79957449205     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020020     Document Type: Article

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