Cryo-EM study of Hepatitis B virus core antigen capsids decorated with antibodies from a human patient

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 177, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 145-151

  Kandiah, Eaazhisai ^a   Watts, Norman R ^a   Cheng, Naiqian ^a   Cardone, Giovanni ^a   Stahl, Stephen J ^a   Heller, Theo ^b   Liang, T Jake ^b   Wingfield, Paul T ^a   Steven, Alasdair C ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibody labeling; Conformational epitopes; Immunodominant epitopes; Molecular modeling; Polyclonal antibodies

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; HEPATITIS ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN F(AB) FRAGMENT; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; VIRUS CAPSID ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY LABELING; ANTIBODY STRUCTURE; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; VIREMIA; VIRUS CAPSID;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CAPSID PROTEINS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPITOPES; HEPATITIS ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS; MIRIDAE; MURINAE;

EID: 84855854230     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: 10958657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2011.10.003     Document Type: Article

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