Overproduction of microbial transglutaminase in escherichia coli, in vitro refolding, and characterization of the refolded form

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1263-1270

  Yokoyama, Kei Ichi ^a   Nakamura, Nami ^a   Seguro, Katsuya ^a   Kubota, Kouji ^a  

^a AJINOMOTO CO INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; Refolding; Texture; Transglutaminase

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA; PROTEIN GLUTAMINE GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL INCLUSION; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PROTEIN FOLDING; STREPTOMYCETACEAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; INCLUSION BODIES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN FOLDING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; STREPTOMYCETACEAE; TRANSGLUTAMINASES;

EID: 0034201598     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: 13476947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.64.1263     Document Type: Article

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