Recent developments in bacterial protein glycan coupling technology and glycoconjugate vaccine design

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 61, Issue PART7, 2012, Pages 919-926

  Terra, Vanessa S ^a   Mills, Dominic C ^a   Yates, Laura E ^a   Abouelhadid, Sherif ^a   Cuccui, Jon ^a   Wren, Brendan W ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLYCAN; GLYCOCONJUGATE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VACCINE;

CLOSTRIDIUM TETANI; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; CROSS COUPLING REACTION; CYTOPLASM; DRUG DESIGN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLYCOSYLATION; HYDROGEN BOND; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; NONHUMAN; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN GLYCAN COUPLING TECHNOLOGY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

BACTERIAL VACCINES; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLYCOCONJUGATES; HUMANS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; TECHNOLOGY, PHARMACEUTICAL; VACCINES, CONJUGATE; VACCINES, SYNTHETIC;

EID: 84862659885     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.039438-0     Document Type: Review

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