Cloning and Expression in Escherichia coli of a Synthetic DNA for Hirudin, the Blood Coagulation Inhibitor in the Leech

DNA

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1986, Pages 511-517

  Fortkamp, Elke ^a   Rieger, Michael ^a   Heisterberg Moutses, Gudrun ^a   Schweitzer, Silvia ^a   Sommer, Reinhold ^a  

^a Gen bio tec Comp ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; HIRUDIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; CHROMOZYM TH; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HEREDITY; INVERTEBRATE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIRUDINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HIRUDINIDA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0022829882     PISSN: 01980238     EISSN: 15577430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/dna.1.1986.5.511     Document Type: Article

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