The refolding, purification, and activity analysis of a rice Bowman-Birk inhibitor expressed in Escherichia coli

Protein Expression and Purification

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 99-104

  Li, Na ^a   Qu, Li Jia ^a   Liu, Yueyi ^a   Li, Qin ^a   Gu, Hongya ^a   Chen, Zhangliang ^a,b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHYMOTRYPSIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RICE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033083536     PISSN: 10465928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/prep.1998.0989     Document Type: Article

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