Article
Priming polyvalent immunity by DNA vaccines expressing chimeric antigens with a stress protein-capturing, viral J-domain.
FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology - 1 Jul 2002
Schirmbeck Reinhold, Kwissa Marcin, Fissolo Nicolas, Elkholy Shereen, Riedl Petra, Reimann Jörg
Abstract excerpt
The N-terminal domain of large tumor antigens (T-Ag) of polyomaviruses forms a DnaJ-like structure with a conserved J domain that associates with constitutively expressed stress protein heat shock protein (hsp)73. Mutant (but not wild-type) SV40 T-Ag show stable, ATP-dependent binding to the stress protein hsp73 when expressed in cells from different vertebrate tissues. Intracellular T/hsp73 complexes accumulate...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Antigens, Polyomavirus Transforming
- B-Lymphocytes
- Binding Sites
- Biotechnology
- Carrier Proteins
- HSC70 Heat-Shock Proteins
- HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins
- Mice
