Expression of a highly toxic protein, bax, in Escherichia coli by attachment of a leader peptide derived from the GroES cochaperone

Protein Expression and Purification

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 422-429

  Donnelly, Mark I ^a   Stevens, Priscilla Wilkins ^b   Stols, Lucy ^a   Xiaoyin Su, Sharyn ^b   Tollaksen, Sandra ^b   Giometti, Carol ^b   Joachimiak, Andrzej ^b  

^a Environmental Research Division

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bax; Bcl 2; Chaperonin; Escherichia coli; Expression vector; GroEL; GroES; Protein expression

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; CHAPERONE; CHAPERONIN; CYTOLYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPRESSION VECTOR; MOUSE; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MURINAE;

EID: 0034888062     PISSN: 10465928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/prep.2001.1442     Document Type: Article

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