Identification and Characterization of B-Cell Epitopes in the DBL4ε Domain of VAR2CSA

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Ditlev, Sisse B ^a   Nielsen, Morten A ^a   Resende, Mafalda ^a   Agerbæk, Mette Ø ^a   Pinto, Vera V ^a   Andersen, Pernille H ^a   Magistrado, Pamela ^a,b   Lusingu, John ^b   Dahlbäck, Madeleine ^a   Theander, Thor G ^a   Salanti, Ali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHONDROITIN 4 SULFATE; EPITOPE; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE PROTEIN 1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LIGAND; MALARIA VACCINE; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VAR2CSA PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DBL4 EPSILON DOMAIN; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE ADHESIVENESS; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE BINDING; PARASITE PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; PLACENTA MALARIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIBODY FORMATION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CELL ADHESION; EPITOPE MAPPING; EPITOPES, B-LYMPHOCYTE; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNE SERA; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUTANT PROTEINS; PARASITES; PEPTIDES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RATS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RATTUS;

EID: 84866135899     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043663     Document Type: Article

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