A potential in silico antibody-antigen based diagnostic test for precise identification of Acinetobacter baumannii

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 294, Issue , 2012, Pages 29-39

  Rahbar, Mohammad Reza ^a   Rasooli, Iraj ^b   Gargari, Seyed Latif Mousavi ^a   Sandstrom, Gunnar ^b   Amani, Jafar ^c   Fattahian, Yaser ^a   Jahangiri, Abolfazl ^a   Jalali, Marziyeh ^a  

^a SHAHED UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c BAQIYATALLAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

A. baumannii; Antigenicity; Biofilm associated protein; Bioinformatics

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BIOFILM ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; EPITOPE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; BIOFILM; BIOINFORMATICS; DATABASE; PATHOGEN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; COMPUTER MODEL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EPITOPE MAPPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY REACTIONS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, PROTEIN; EPITOPE MAPPING; EPITOPES, B-LYMPHOCYTE; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; LIGANDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII;

EID: 81055138205     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.10.026     Document Type: Article

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