Crystal structures of fusion proteins with large-affinity tags

Protein Science

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1313-1322

  Smyth, Douglas R ^a   Mrozkiewicz, Marek K ^a   McGrath, William J ^a,c   Listwan, Pawel ^a,b   Kobe, Bostjan ^a,b  

^a Ritchie Research Laboratories   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chimera; Fusion protein; Membrane proteins; Molecular replacement; Protein crystallization; Protein expression; Structural genomics; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; MALTOSE BINDING PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; THIOREDOXIN;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REVIEW; SOLUBILITY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AFFINITY LABELS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIMERIZATION; GENOMICS; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; THIOREDOXIN;

EID: 0038648648     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.0243403     Document Type: Review

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