Expression of functional influenza virus RNA polymerase in the methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris

Journal of Virology

Volumn 74, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 4074-4084

  Hwang, Jung Shan ^a   Yamada, Kazunori ^b   Honda, Ayae ^a,c   Nakade, Kohji ^b   Ishihama, Akira ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^b MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL OXIDASE; CAPPED RNA; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; METHANOL; RNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SUBUNIT; INFLUENZA VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PICHIA PASTORIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REACTION ANALYSIS; RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY; RNA SYNTHESIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, VIRAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PICHIA; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA REPLICASE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, VIRAL; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0034003424     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.74.9.4074-4084.2000     Document Type: Article

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