Purification of milligram quantities of human leptin from recombinant E. coli

Hormone and Metabolic Research

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 694-697

  Fawzi, A B ^a   Zhang, H ^a   Van Heek, M ^a   Graziano, M P ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

body weight; food intake; inclusion body; ob gene; ob protein; ob ob mice; obese gene

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN; RECOMBINANT LEPTIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MANUFACTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD INTAKE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0030481073     PISSN: 00185043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-979880     Document Type: Article

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