Proteomics-driven antigen discovery for development of vaccines against gonorrhea

Molecular and Cellular Proteomics

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 2338-2355

  Zielke, Ryszard A ^a   Wierzbicki, Igor H ^a   Baarda, Benjamin I ^a   Gafken, Philip R ^b   Soge, Olusegun O ^c   Holmes, King K ^c   Jerse, Ann E ^c   Unemo, Magnus ^d   Sikora, Aleksandra E ^a,e  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

^e ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANTIGEN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; ENVELOPE PROTEIN; IRON; NUCLEOTIDE; OXYGEN; PROTEIN; VACCINE; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL VACCINE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GONORRHEA; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEMBRANE VESICLE; MOUSE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; SERUM; STIMULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; PROCEDURES;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PROTEOMICS;

EID: 84977263395     PISSN: 15359476     EISSN: 15359484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/mcp.M116.058800     Document Type: Article

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