Production of recombinant proteins in transgenic plants: Practical considerations

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 473-484

  Kusnadi, Ann R ^a   Nikolov, Zivko L ^a,b   Howard, John A ^c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

^c Prodigene Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Downstream processing; Gene expression; Recombinant protein; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

CROPS; GENES; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS;

GENE EXPRESSION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TRANSGENIC PLANTS;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

CROP; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

EID: 0031555505     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0290(19971205)56:5<473::AID-BIT1>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Review

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