Comparative study on the effect of signal peptide codons and arginine codons on the expression of human interferon-α1 gene in Escherichia coli

Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 745-749

  Saraffova, A ^a   Maximova, V ^a   Ivanov, I G ^b   Abouhaidar, M G ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RNA TRANSLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0029760499     PISSN: 10799907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jir.1996.16.745     Document Type: Article

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