Evaluation of feline immunodeficiency virus and feline leukemia virus transmembrane peptides for serological diagnosis
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Evaluation of feline immunodeficiency virus and feline leukemia virus transmembrane peptides for serological diagnosis.
The general model for retrovirus transmembrane (TM) proteins proposed by Gallaher et al. (W. R. Gallaher, J. M. Ball, R. F. Garry, M. C. Griffin, and R. C. Montelaro, AIDS Res. Hum. Retroviruses 5:431-440, 1989) suggests that all retrovirus TM proteins may contain an immunodominant domain (Imd-TM peptide) located at the apex of the TM polypeptide. Although this Imd-TM peptide has been shown to ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Microbiology
سال: 1992
ISSN: 0095-1137,1098-660X
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.30.7.1885-1890.1992