Current status of fungal cell wall components in the immunodiagnostics of invasive fungal infections in humans: galactomannan, mannan and (1→3)-β-D-glucan antigens

Plasma (1→3)-β-D-glucan assay and immuno

Plasma (1→3)-β-D-glucan assay and immunohistochemical staining of (1→3)-β-D-glucan in the fungal cell walls using a novel horseshoe crab protein (T-GBP) that specifically binds to (1→3)-β-D-glucan

✍ Hiroshi Tamura; Shigenori Tanaka; Teruo Ikeda; Taminori Obayashi; Yohichi Hashim 📂 Article 📅 1997 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 95 KB 👁 1 views

A highly sensitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay specific to (1→3)-β-Dglucans (GBP-ELISA) has been developed using a novel (1→3)-β-D-glucan-binding protein (T-GBP), which was purified from the amebocyte lysate of the Japanese horseshoe crab, Tachypleus tridentatus. This method allowed quantitati