Cloning, expression, and purification of a catalytic fragment of Moloney murine leukemia virus reverse transcriptase: Crystallization of nucleic acid complexes

Protein Science

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1575-1582

  Sun, Dunming ^a   Jessen, Sven ^a   Liu, Chunhui ^a   Liu, Xiuping ^a   Najmudin, Shabir ^a   Georgiadis, Millie M ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex; Crystallization; DNA; Moloney murine leukemia virus; Nucleic acid; Polymerase; Reverse transcriptase

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLONEY MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; MURINAE;

EID: 0031854137     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pro.5560070711     Document Type: Article

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