Recombinant monoclonal antibody recognizes a unique epitope on varicella-zoster virus immediate-early 63 protein

Journal of Virology

Volumn 86, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 6345-6349

  Mueller, Niklaus H ^a   Bos, Nathan L ^a   Seitz, Scott ^a   Wellish, Mary ^a   Mahalingam, Ravi ^a   Gilden, Don ^a   Cohrs, Randall J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMEDIATE EARLY PROTEIN; IMMEDIATE EARLY PROTEIN 63; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; RECOMBINANT MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY 63P4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; EPITOPE; IMMEDIATE EARLY PROTEIN 63, HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 3; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DELETION MUTANT; EPITOPE MAPPING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIMIAN VARICELLA VIRUS; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VARICELLOVIRUS; VIRUS EXAMINATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 3; SIMIAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; EPITOPE MAPPING; EPITOPES, B-LYMPHOCYTE; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS;

EID: 84863572618     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.06814-11     Document Type: Article

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