Efficient synthesis of the blood-coagulation inhibitor hirudin in the filamentous fungus Acremonium chrysogenum

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 58-65

  Radzio, R ^a   Kuck U ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIRUDIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; CEPHALOSPORIUM ACREMONIUM; DNA TRANSFECTION; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ENZYME INHIBITION; FUNGUS GROWTH; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ACREMONIUM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTICOAGULANTS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, SYNTHETIC; GENETIC VECTORS; HIRUDINS; LEECHES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; THROMBIN;

ACREMONIUM CHRYSOGENUM; CEPHALOSPORIUM; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; FUSARIUM SP.; HIRUDINIDA; HIRUDO MEDICINALIS;

EID: 0030836045     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002530051015     Document Type: Article

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