Production and purification of active snowdrop lectin in Escherichia coli

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 252, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 59-65

  Longstaff, Marian ^a   Powell, Kevin S ^b   Gatehouse, John A ^b   Raemaekers, Romaan ^b   Newell, Christine A ^a   Hamilton, William D O ^a  

^a Axis Genetics plc   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacterial expression system; Functional activity; Lectin; Recombinant protein; Snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis)

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTININ; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HISTIDINE; ISOPROPYL THIOGALACTOSIDE; LECTIN; MANNOSE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL INCLUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEMAGGLUTINATION; INSECT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RABBIT; TOXICITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GALANTHUS; GENE EXPRESSION; HEMAGGLUTINATION; INSECTS; LARVA; LECTINS; MANNOSE; MANNOSE-BINDING LECTINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOSACCHARIDES; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT LECTINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; RABBITS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; ARCHAEORRHYNCHA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; GALANTHUS; GALANTHUS NIVALIS; INSECTA; NILAPARVATA LUGENS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0032520010     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1998.2520059.x     Document Type: Article

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