Effect of N-terminal deletions on the activity of pokeweed antiviral protein expressed in E. coli

Biochimie

Volumn 80, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1069-1076

  Xu, Jianhua ^a   Meng, Alice X ^a   Hefferon, Kathleen L ^a   Ivanov, Ivan G ^b   Abouhaidar, Mounir G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Gene expression; N terminal deletion; Pokeweed antiviral protein; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

MUTANT PROTEIN; POKEWEED ANTIVIRUS PROTEIN; RIBOSOME INACTIVATING PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PROMOTER REGION; RIBOSOME; STOP CODON; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PHYTOLACCA AMERICANA;

EID: 0032293436     PISSN: 03009084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-9084(99)80014-5     Document Type: Article

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