High-level production and isotope labeling of snake neurotoxins, disulfide-rich proteins

Protein Expression and Purification

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 293-300

  Drevet, Pascal ^a   Lemaire, Caroline ^a   Gasparini, Sylvaine ^a   Zinn Justin, Sophie ^a   Lajeunesse, Evelyne ^a   Ducancel, Frédéric ^a   Pinkasfeld, Suzanne ^a   Courçon, Marie ^a   Tremeau O ^a   Boulain, J C ^a   Ménez, André ^a  

^a CEA SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; SERPENTES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 0031214643     PISSN: 10465928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/prep.1997.0740     Document Type: Article

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