Recent advances in the application of expressed protein ligation to protein engineering

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 297-303

  Hofmann, Roseanne M ^a   Muir, Tom W ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; POLYPEPTIDE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHEMICAL REACTION; DEPROTECTION REACTION; EXPRESSED PROTEIN LIGATION; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW;

EID: 0036669566     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0958-1669(02)00326-9     Document Type: Review

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