Galili epitope

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Galili U. 1993. Interaction of the natural anti-Gal antibody with a-galactosyl epitopes A major obstacle of xenotransplantation in humans. Immunol Today. 14 480-482. 

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LaTemple, D. C., Henion, T. R., Anaraki. F., and Galili, U., Synthesis of alpha-galactosyl epitopes by recombinant alphal, 3galactosyl transferase for opsonization of human tumor cell vaccines by anti-galactose, Cancer Res., 6, 3069, 1996. 

Galili, U., 2005. The alpha-gal epitope and the anti-Gal antibody in xenotransplantation and in cancer immunotherapy. Immunol. Cell Biol. 83 (6), 674—686. 

Joziasse, D.H., Shaper, J.H. and Shaper, N.L. The al,3-Galactosyltransferase Gene, in al,3-Galactosyltransferase, a-Gal Epitopes and the Natural Anti-Gal Antibody , in the series Subcellular Biochemistry , U. Galili and J.L. Avila, eds. Plenum Press, New York, 1999. 

U. Galili, S. B. Shohet, E. Kobrin, C. L. Stults, B. A. Macher, Man, apes, and Old World monkeys differ from other mammals in the expression of alpha-galactosyl epitopes on nucleated cells. J. Biol Chem. 1988, 263, 17755-17762. 

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