Production and refolding of recombinant leptin

BioTechniques

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 800-804

  Zamorano, Pedro L ^a   De Sevilla, Liesl ^a   Mahesh, Virendra B ^a   Brann, Darrell W ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GUANIDINE; ISOPROPYL THIOGALACTOSIDE; LEPTIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RNA;

ADIPOCYTE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030661789     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/97235bm07     Document Type: Article

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