Expression and purification of the transcription factor NtcA from the cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC 7120

Protein Expression and Purification

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 351-357

  Wisén, Susanne ^a   Jiang, Fanyi ^a   Bergman, Birgitta ^b   Mannervik, Bengt ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLONE; DNA; GENE MUTATION; GENE TAGGING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANABAENA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0033486228     PISSN: 10465928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/prep.1999.1131     Document Type: Article

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