Expression of tetanus toxin Fragment C in tobacco chloroplasts

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1174-1179

  Tregoning, John S ^a,b   Nixon, Peter ^b   Kuroda, Hiroshi ^a   Svab, Zora ^a   Clare, Simon ^b   Bowe, Frances ^b   Fairweather, Neil ^b   Ytterberg, Jimmy ^c   van Wijk, Klaas J ^c   Dougan, Gordon ^b   Maliga, Pal ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; ADJUVANT; CELL PROTEIN; CHOLERA TOXIN; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; MESSENGER RNA; POLYPEPTIDE; SYNTHETIC DNA; TETANUS TOXIN; TETANUS TOXOID; THYMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; AT RICH SEQUENCE; CHLOROPLAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; PLASTID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; RNA STABILITY; RNA TRANSLATION; TOBACCO;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHLOROPLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MICE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASMIDS; RNA, MESSENGER; TETANUS TOXIN; TOBACCO;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NICOTIANA TABACUM; SYNTHETIC CONSTRUCT;

EID: 0037440739     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg221     Document Type: Review

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