Production of the active antifungal Pisum sativum defensin 1 (Psd1) in Pichia pastoris: Overcoming the inefficiency of the STE13 protease

Protein Expression and Purification

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 115-122

  Cabral, Kátia M S ^a   Almeida, Marcius S ^a,b   Valente, Ana Paula ^b   Almeida, Fábio C L ^b   Kurtenbach, Eleonora ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b Ctro Nac Ressonancia Magnetica N   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antifungal protein; Circular dichroism; Heterologous expression; NMR; Pichia pastoris; Pisum sativum defensin

Indexed keywords

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; FUNGI; INSECTA; PICHIA; PICHIA PASTORIS; PISUM; PISUM SATIVUM; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0141650651     PISSN: 10465928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1046-5928(03)00136-0     Document Type: Article

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