Expression of an engineered form of recombinant procollagen in mouse milk

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 385-389

  John, David C A ^a   Watson, Rod ^a   Kind, Alexander J ^b   Scott, Ann R ^b   Kadler, Karl E ^a   Bulleid, Neil J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b PPL Therapeutics   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Protein engineering; Recombinant procollagen; Transgenic animals

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PROCOLLAGEN; PROCOLLAGEN PROLINE 2 OXOGLUTARATE 4 DIOXYGENASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MILK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0032892683     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/7945     Document Type: Article

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