Inclusion of an upstream transcriptional terminator in phage display vectors abolishes background expression of toxic fusions with coat protein g3p

Gene

Volumn 178, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 71-74

  Krebber, Anke ^a   Burmester, Jörg ^a   Plückthun, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Antibody libraries; E. coli; Filamentous phage; Recombinant antibodies

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; COAT PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; GLUCOSE; HYBRID PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE INSERTION; NONHUMAN; PHAGE DISPLAY; PHAGEMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0030608365     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(96)00337-X     Document Type: Article

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