Alternative approach to express Mycobacterium tuberculosis proteins in Escherichia coli

BioTechniques

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 34-40

  Mukherjee, Sandeep ^a   Daifalla, Nada ^a   Liu, Chao ^a   Campos Neto, Antonio ^a  

^a INFECTIOUS DISEASE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; N,N' DIPHENYL 1,4 PHENYLENEDIAMINE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GENE FUSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GUINEA PIG; HUMAN; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TECHNIQUE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAVIA PORCELLUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SUS SCROFA; VECTORS;

EID: 0037664655     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/03351bm02     Document Type: Article

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