Recombinant and truncated tetanus neurotoxin light chain: Cloning, expression, purification, and proteolytic activity

Protein Expression and Purification

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 221-227

  Tonello, Fiorella ^a   Pellizzari, Rossella ^a   Pasqualato, Sebastiano ^a   Grandi, Guido ^b   Peggion, Evaristo ^a   Montecucco, Cesare ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b CHIRON VACCINES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Crystals; Metalloprotease; Tetanus; Tetanus neurotoxin

Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM TETANI; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; NEUROTOXIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEINASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TETANUS;

CLOSTRIDIUM TETANI; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0033102461     PISSN: 10465928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/prep.1998.1007     Document Type: Article

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