Article
Mapping of a strain-specific bactericidal epitope to the surface-exposed loop 5 on the P2 porin protein of non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae.
Microbial pathogenesis - 1 Oct 1994
Yi K, Murphy T F
Abstract excerpt
The P2 protein is the major outer-membrane protein of non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI) and shows extreme heterogeneity among strains. Based on the analysis of antigenic structure, the P2 protein consists of eight potentially surface-exposed loops. Previous studies of monoclonal antibodies (mABs) to a single strain of NTHI showed that P2 contains potentially immunodominant epitopes in loop 5 of the...
Topics
- Adult
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Antibodies, Monoclonal
- Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins
- Base Sequence
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA Primers
- Epitopes
- Haemophilus influenzae
- Humans
- Immunodominant Epitopes
