A Novel B-Cell Epitope Identified within Mycobacterium tuberculosis CFP10/ESAT-6 Protein

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Yang, Hua ^a   Chen, Haizhen ^b   Liu, Zhonghua ^a   Ma, Hui ^a   Qin, Lianhua ^a   Jin, Ruiliang ^a   Zheng, Ruijuan ^a   Feng, Yonghong ^a   Cui, Zhenling ^a   Wang, Jie ^a   Liu, Jinming ^a   Hu, Zhongyi ^a  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b SHANXI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CULTURE FILTRATE PROTEIN 10; E5 PEPTIDE BINDING ANTIBODY; EARLY SECRETORY ANTIGENIC TARGET 6; EPITOPE; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHAGE DISPLAY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; EPITOPES, B-LYMPHOCYTE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PEPTIDE LIBRARY; PEPTIDES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TUBERCULOSIS;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84872043106     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052848     Document Type: Article

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