Modified Listeria bacteriophage lysin genes (ply) allow efficient overexpression and one-step purification of biochemically active fusion proteins

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 3057-3060

  Loessner, Martin J ^a   Schneider, Anette ^a   Scherer, Siegfried ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; HYBRID PROTEIN;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIOPHAGE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENE EXPRESSION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN PURIFICATION;

EID: 0029783288     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.8.3057-3060.1996     Document Type: Article

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