Extracellular expression, purification, and characterization of a winter flounder antifreeze polypeptide from Escherichia coil

Protein Expression and Purification

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 175-181

  Tong, Li ^a   Lin, Qingsong ^b   Wong, W K Raymond ^c   Ali, Asma ^c   Lim, Daniel ^a   Sung, Wing L ^d   Hew, Choy L ^b   Yang, Daniel S C ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ANTIFREEZE PROTEIN; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTAGENESIS; PLEURONECTES AMERICANUS; PROTEIN DETECTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PLEURONECTES; PLEURONECTOIDEI; PSEUDOPLEURONECTES AMERICANUS;

EID: 0034065261     PISSN: 10465928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/prep.1999.1176     Document Type: Article

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