An Env-derived multi-epitope HIV chimeric protein produced in the moss Physcomitrella patens is immunogenic in mice

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 425-433

  Orellana Escobedo, Lucía ^a   Rosales Mendoza, Sergio ^a   Romero Maldonado, Andrea ^a   Parsons, Juliana ^b   Decker, Eva L ^b   Monreal Escalante, Elizabeth ^a   Moreno Fierros, Leticia ^c   Reski, Ralf ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE SAN LUIS POTOSÍ   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

HIV; Molecular farming; Physcomitrella patens; Plant made pharmaceutical; Recombinant vaccine

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 120; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 41; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS VACCINE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BRYOPSIDA; GENETICS; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AIDS VACCINES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRYOPSIDA; EPITOPES; HIV ENVELOPE PROTEIN GP120; HIV ENVELOPE PROTEIN GP41; IMMUNIZATION; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 84925535075     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: 1432203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-014-1720-6     Document Type: Article

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