Expression of an antibody fragment at high levels in the bacterial cytoplasm

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 280, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 117-127

  Martineau, Pierre ^a   Jones, Peter ^a   Winter, Greg ^a  

^a MRC CENTRE FOR PROTEIN ENGINEERING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Antibody expression; Cytoplasm; Mutagenesis; Protein folding

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DISULFIDE BOND; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0032479180     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.1840     Document Type: Article

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