Heligmosomoides polygyrus elicits a dominant nonprotective antibody response directed against restricted glycan and peptide epitopes

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 187, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 4764-4777

  Hewitson, James P ^a   Filbey, Kara J ^a   Grainger, John R ^a,c   Dowle, Adam A ^b   Pearson, Mark ^a   Murray, Janice ^a   Harcus, Yvonne ^a   Maizels, Rick M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; GLYCAN; GLYCAN A; GLYCAN B; GLYCOPROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VENOM ALLERGEN ANCYSTOMA SECRETED PROTEIN 1; VENOM ALLERGEN ANCYSTOMA SECRETED PROTEIN 1 ANTIBODY; VENOM ALLERGEN ANCYSTOMA SECRETED PROTEIN 2; VENOM ALLERGEN ANCYSTOMA SECRETED PROTEIN 2 ANTIBODY; VENOM ALLERGEN ANCYSTOMA SECRETED PROTEIN 3; VENOM ALLERGEN ANCYSTOMA SECRETED PROTEIN 4 ANTIBODY; VENOM ALLERGEN ANCYSTOMA SECRETED PROTEIN 5; VENOM ALLERGEN ANCYSTOMA SECRETED PROTEIN 7;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DRUG EFFICACY; HELIGMOSOMOIDES POLYGYRUS; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; EPITOPES; FEMALE; IMMUNE SERA; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEMATOSPIROIDES DUBIUS; PEPTIDES; POLYSACCHARIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS;

EID: 80555154812     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1004140     Document Type: Article

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