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Investigation of a special neutralizing epitope of HEV E2s

  • Min You 1 ,
  • Lu Xin 1 ,
  • Yi Yang 1 ,
  • Xiao Zhang 1 ,
  • Yingwei Chen 3 ,
  • Hai Yu 1 ,
  • Shaowei Li 1 ,
  • Jun Zhang 1 ,
  • Zhiqiang An 1,2 ,
  • Wenxin Luo , 1 ,
  • Ningshao Xia 1
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  • 1. National institute of diagnostics and vaccine development in infectious diseases, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361105, China
  • 2. Texes Therapeutics Institute, The Brown Foundation of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston TX77030, USA

Published date: 30 Dec 2014

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2014 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Cite this article

Min You , Lu Xin , Yi Yang , Xiao Zhang , Yingwei Chen , Hai Yu , Shaowei Li , Jun Zhang , Zhiqiang An , Wenxin Luo , Ningshao Xia . Investigation of a special neutralizing epitope of HEV E2s[J]. Protein & Cell, 2014 , 5(12) : 950 -953 . DOI: 10.1007/s13238-014-0115-3

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