Engineered membrane protein antigens successfully induce antibodies against extracellular regions of claudin-5

Abstract The production of antibodies against the extracellular regions (ECR) of multispanning membrane proteins is notoriously difficult because of the low productivity and immunogenicity of membrane proteins due to their complex structure and highly conserved sequences among species. Here, we intr...

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Main Authors: Yosuke Hashimoto, Wei Zhou, Kohtaroh Hamauchi, Keisuke Shirakura, Takefumi Doi, Kiyohito Yagi, Tatsuya Sawasaki, Yoshiaki Okada, Masuo Kondoh, Hiroyuki Takeda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-05-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-26560-9