Expression and Purification of a Synthetic Human Obese Gene Product

Protein Expression and Purification

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 1995, Pages 722-726

  Altmann, Scott W ^a   Timans, Jackie C ^a   Rock, Fernando L ^a   Bazan, J Fernando ^a   Kastelein, Robert A ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FLAG PEPTIDE; HYBRID PROTEIN; LEPTIN; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OBESITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; LEPTIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OBESITY; PEPTIDES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

EID: 0029449828     PISSN: 10465928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/prep.1995.0002     Document Type: Article

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