Mouse and rat cystatin C: Escherichia coli production, characterization and tissue distribution

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 303-311

  Håkansson, Katarina ^a   Huh, Changgoo ^b   Grubb, Anders ^a   Karlsson, Stefan ^b   Abrahamson, Magnus ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

amyloidosis; cathepsin B; cysteine proteinase inhibitor; cysteine proteinases; E. coli expression; enzyme linked immunosorbent assay; hereditary cystatin C amyloid angiopathy

Indexed keywords

CYSTATIN C;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RAT;

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MURINAE; MUS MUSCULUS; MUSCULUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0029744913     PISSN: 03050491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0305-0491(96)00025-9     Document Type: Article

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