High level production of soluble single chain antibodies in small-scale Escherichia coli cultures

Journal of Immunological Methods

Volumn 200, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 69-77

  Kipriyanov, Sergey M ^a   Moldenhauer, Gerhard ^a   Little, Melvyn ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

bacterial expression system; single chain Fv antibody fragment; small scale culture

Indexed keywords

CD3 ANTIGEN;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FRAGMENTS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SUCROSE; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0031022084     PISSN: 00221759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1759(96)00188-3     Document Type: Article

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