Expression and purification of anthrax toxin protective antigen from Escherichia coli

Protein Expression and Purification

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 33-38

  Sharma, Manju ^a   Swain, Prabodha K ^a   Chopra, Arun P ^a   Chaudhary, Vijay K ^a,b   Singh, Yogendra ^a  

^a CSIR INSTITUTE OF GENOMICS AND INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRAX; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0030087551     PISSN: 10465928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/prep.1996.0005     Document Type: Article

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