Plant-based production of recombinant plasmodium surface protein Pf38 and evaluation of its potential as a vaccine candidate

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Feller, Tatjana ^a   Thom, Pascal ^a   Koch, Natalie ^a   Spiegel, Holger ^a   Addai Mensah, Otchere ^b   Fischer, Rainer ^a,b   Reimann, Andreas ^a   Pradel, Gabriele ^b   Fendel, Rolf ^a,b   Schillberg, Stefan ^a   Scheuermayer, Matthias ^c   Schinkel, Helga ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND APPLIED ECOLOGY IME   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL ANCHORED PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALARIA VACCINE; RECOMBINANT PLASMODIUM SURFACE PROTEIN PF38; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ISOLATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GAMETE; GAMETOCYTE; GROWTH INHIBITION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOGENICITY; MALARIA; MOUSE; NEGRO; NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN BINDING; SCHIZONT; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; MALARIA VACCINES; PLANTIBODIES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TOBACCO;

EID: 84896722103     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079920     Document Type: Article

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