Synthesis of the measles virus nucleoprotein in yeast Pichia pastoris and Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 115-124

  Slibinskas, Rimantas ^a   Samuel, Dhanraj ^b   Gedvilaite, Alma ^a   Staniulis, Juozas ^c   Sasnauskas, Kestutis ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Expression; Measles; Nucleocapsid like particles; Pichia pastoris; Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Indexed keywords

ASSAYS; FLUORESCENCE; GENES; PROTEINS; RNA; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); VIRUSES; YEAST;

GENE ENCODING;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS NUCLEOPROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL INCLUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; MEASLES VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PICHIA PASTORIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SERUM; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID;

MAMMALIA; MEASLES VIRUS; PICHIA PASTORIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0346094304     PISSN: 01681656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2003.10.018     Document Type: Article

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