Improving protein secretion by engineering components of the bacterial translocation machinery

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 376-381

  Braun, Peter ^a   Gerritse, Gijs ^b   Van Dijl, Jan Maarten ^a   Quax, Wim J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Qenencor International   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; CHAPERONE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PROTEIN;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DISULFIDE BOND; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW;

EID: 0033179306     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0958-1669(99)80068-8     Document Type: Article

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