Article
The phenotypically variable surface protein of Trichomonas vaginalis has a single, tandemly repeated immunodominant epitope.
Infection and immunity - 1 Jun 1991
Dailey D C, Alderete J F
Abstract excerpt
Trichomonas vaginalis is a sexually transmitted protozoan parasite that undergoes phenotypic variation for numerous surface proteins. A monoclonal antibody (MAb) was used to isolate an approximately 400-bp cDNA encoding a fragment of an important phenotypically varying immunogen of T. vaginalis (...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Antigens, Protozoan
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Northern
- DNA
- Escherichia coli
- Gene Expression
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genetic Variation
- Immunodominant Epitopes
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phenotype
- RNA
- Recombinant Proteins
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
- Trichomonas vaginalis