Cloning, overexpression, and purification of Escherichia coil quinolinate synthetase

Protein Expression and Purification

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 64-70

  Ceciliani, Fabrizio ^a   Caramori, Tiziana ^b   Ronchi, Severino ^a   Tedeschi, Gabriella ^a   Mortarino, Michele ^a   Galizzi, Alessandro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

NAD biosynthesis; nadA; Overexpression; Quinolinate synthetase; Refolding

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE OXIDASE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ISOLATION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; QUINOLINATE SYNTHETASE; QUINOLINIC ACID; RENATURATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0034141264     PISSN: 10465928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/prep.1999.1153     Document Type: Article

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