Molecular Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases

Protein-Based Identification Of Antigens.- Proteomic Approaches to Antigen Discovery.- Immunoproteomics.- Immunoprecipitation and Blotting.- DNA-Based Identification of Antigens.- Representational Difference Analysis of cDNA.- Microarray Data Analysis and Mining.- Expression Cloning.- Identification of Epitopes and Immunomodulatory Components.- Determination of Epitopes by Mass Spectrometry.- Identification of T-Cell Epitopes Using ELISpot and Peptide Pool Arrays.- Virus-like Particles.- Application of Single-Cell Cultures of Mouse Splenocytes as an Assay System to Analyze the Immunomodulatory Properties of Bacterial Components.- Expression of Recombinant Proteins.- High-Throughput Expression and Purification of 6xHis-Tagged Proteins in a 96-Well Format.- Production of Antigens in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.- Codon-Optimized Genes that Enable Increased Heterologous Expression in Mammalian Cells and Elicit Efficient Immune Responses in Mice after Vaccination of Naked DNA.- Purification, Modification, and Renaturation of Recombinant Proteins.- Purification and Immunological Characterization of Recombinant Antigens Expressed in the Form of Insoluble Aggregates (Inclusion Bodies).- Purification of Recombinant Proteins with High Isoelectric Points.- Refolding of Inclusion Body Proteins.- Small-Molecule-Protein Conjugation Procedures.- Characterization of Recombinant Proteins.- Structural Characterization of Proteins and Peptides.- Determination of Kinetic Data Using Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensors.- Affinity Measurements of Biological Molecules by a Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM) Biosensor.- Evaluation of Recombinant Proteins in Immunological Test Systems.- Solid Supports in Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay and Other Solid-Phase Immunoassays.- Design and Preparationof Recombinant Antigens as Diagnostic Reagents in Solid-Phase Immunosorbent Assays.- Basic Problems of Serological Laboratory Diagnosis.- Molecular Diagnostics Resources on the Internet.- Recombinant

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