Generation of recombinant metapneumovirus nucleocapsid protein as nucleocapsid-like particles and development of virus-specific monoclonal antibodies

Virus Research

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 131-139

  Petraityte Burneikiene, Rasa ^a   Nalivaiko, Kristina ^a   Lasickiene, Rita ^a   Firantiene, Regina ^a   Emužyte, Regina ^a   Sasnauskas, Kestutis ^a   Žvirbliene, Aurelija ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Human metapneumovirus; Monoclonal antibodies; Nucleocapsid protein; Nucleocapsid like particles

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RECOMBINANT PLASMID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CELL LINE; CHILD; EPITOPE MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEINS; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

CLUPEIDAE; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; HUMAN RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; MUS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 80053131556     PISSN: 01681702     EISSN: 18727492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2011.07.009     Document Type: Article

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