Epitope-based immunoinformatics and molecular docking studies of nucleocapsid protein and ovarian tumor domain of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue NOV, 2011, Pages

  Srinivasan, Pappu ^a   Kumar, Sivakumar Prasanth ^a   Karthikeyan, Muthusamy ^a   Jeyakanthan, Jeyaram ^a   Jasrai, Yogesh T ^b   Pandya, Himanshu A ^b   Rawal, Rakesh M ^c   Patel, Saumya K ^b  

^a ALAGAPPA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b GUJARAT UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c GUJARAT CANCER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

CCHFV; Immunoinformatics; Molecular docking; OTU domain; Polymerase

Indexed keywords

CRIMEAN-CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS; IXODIDA;

EID: 84873089576     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2011.00072     Document Type: Article

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