Production of the β-subunit of human chorionic gonadotropin in Escherichia coli and its export mediated by the heat-labile enterotoxin chain-B signal sequence

Gene

Volumn 173, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 271-274

  Pillai, Devika ^a   Dixit, Aparna ^a   Krishnan, T ^b,c   Garg, Lalit C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY   (India)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloning; Immunoblot; LTB; Periplasmic expression; Recombinant protein; hCG

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN; ISOPROPYL THIOGALACTOSIDE; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; STRUCTURAL GENE;

EID: 0030590390     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(95)00892-6     Document Type: Article

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