Echinococcus granulosus Antigen B structure: Subunit composition and oligomeric states

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Monteiro, Karina M ^a   Cardoso, Mateus B ^b   Follmer, Cristian ^c   da Silveira, Nádya P ^a   Vargas, Daiani M ^a   Kitajima, Elliot W ^d   Zaha, Arnaldo ^a   Ferreira, Henrique B ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b LABORATÓRIO NACIONAL DE LUZ SÍNCROTRON   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS ANTIGEN B; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTEIN VARIANT; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIGEN B, ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; LIPOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COW; CYST; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; HUMAN; LIGHT SCATTERING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGOMERIZATION; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ELECTROPHORESIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATTLE; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ELECTROPHORESIS; HUMANS; LIPOPROTEINS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 84859189235     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001551     Document Type: Article

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