Immunogenic epitopes of hantaviruses' n protein are restricted to conserved regions

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1582-1588

  Rigo, Mauricio Menegatti ^a   Antunes, Dinler Amaral ^a   Cibulski, Samuel Paulo ^a   Sinigaglia, Marialva ^a   Chies, Jose Artur Bogo ^a   Vieira, Gustavo Fioravanti ^a  

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

Author keywords

Bunyaviridae family; Hantavirus genus; Immunogenicity; Immunoinformatics; Nucleocapsid protein

Indexed keywords

BUNYAVIRIDAE; HANTAAN VIRUS; HANTAVIRUS; ORTHOBUNYAVIRUS; PUUMALA;

CAPSID PROTEIN; CORE PROTEIN; EPITOPE; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN, HANTAAN VIRUS;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; HANTAVIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

CAPSID PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EPITOPES; HANTAVIRUS; HUMANS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VIRAL CORE PROTEINS;

EID: 84859254557     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/4004     Document Type: Article

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