Epitope mapping of neutralizing botulinum neurotoxin A antibodies by phage display.

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  • B P Mullaney
  • M G Pallavicini
  • J D Marks
چکیده

Single-chain antibodies neutralize activity and bind nonoverlapping epitopes of botulinum A neurotoxin. Two phage display epitope libraries were constructed from the 1.3 kb of binding domain cDNA. The minimal epitopes selected against the single-chain Fv-Fc antibodies correspond to conformational epitopes with amino acid residues 1115 to 1223 (S25), 1131 to 1264 (3D12), and 889 to 1294 (C25).

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Infection and immunity

دوره 69 10  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2001