Synthetic peptides as antigens [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910642833703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chichester, : Wiley, 1986
• ISBN: 0-470-51328-4; 1-282-34590-7; 9786612345906; 0-470-51329-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Collana: Ciba Foundation symposium ; ; 119
• Altri autori (Persone): PorterRuth; WhelanJulie
• Disciplina: 616.0792; 658.4010971
• Soggetti: Peptides; Peptides - Synthesis; Antigens
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Editors: Ruth Porter (organizer) and Julie Whelan.; "Symposium on Synthetic Peptides as Antigens, held at the Ciba Foundation, London, 4-6 June 1985."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographies and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Synthetic peptides as antigens""; ""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""Regulation of in vivo immune responses: few principles and much ignorance""; ""Raising antibodies by coupling peptides to PPD and immunizing BCG-sensitized animals""; ""Selection by site-directed antibodies of small regions of peptides which are ordered in water""; ""Influence of local structure on the location of antigenic determinants in tobacco mosaic virus protein""; ""The importance of conformation and of equilibria in the interaction of globular proteins and their fragments with antibodies""; ""Three-dimensional analyses of the binding of synthetic chemotactic and opioid peptides in the Mcg light chain dimer""""The delineation of peptides able to mimic assembled epitopes""; ""Experimental basis for the development of a synthetic vaccine against Plasmodium falciparum malaria sporozoites""; ""Antigenic repeat structures in proteins of Plasmodium fakiparum""; ""Synthetic peptides with antigenic specificity ; for bacterial toxins""; ""Use of synthetic peptides as immunogens for developing a vaccine against human chorionic gonadotropin""; ""The use of synthetic peptides in the delineation of immunoglobulin antigenic epitopes and Fc effector functions""""Characterization of the human c-myc protein using antibodies prepared against synthetic peptides""; ""Epitope mapping of human recombinant interferon alpha molecules by monoclonal antibodies""; ""Final general discussion""; ""Chairmanâ€?s summing-up""; ""Index of contributors""; ""Subject index""
• Sommario/riassunto: Symposium on Synthetic Peptides as Antigens, held at the Ciba Foundation, London, 4-6 June 1985 The subject of this symposium was proposed by P. Dukor and D. G. Braun Editors: Ruth Porter (Organizer) and Julie Whelan G. L. Ada Introduction J. H. Humphrey Regulation of in vivo immune responses: few principles and much ignorance Discussion P. J. Lachmann, L. Strangeways, A. Vyakarnam and G. I. Evan Raising antibodies by coupling peptides to PPD and immunizing BCG-sensitized animals Discussion H. J. Dyson, K. J. Cross, J. Ostresh, R. A. Houghten, I. A. Wilson, P. E. Wright and R. A. Lerne