Development of new cloning vectors for the production of immunogenic outer membrane fusion proteins in Escherichia Coli

Bio/Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 203-208

  Cornelis, Pierre ^a   Sierra, Javier Cote ^a   Lim, Antonio ^a   Malur, Achut ^a   Tungpradabkul, Sumalee ^a   Tazka, Hamida ^a   Leitão, Alexandre ^b,c   Martins, Carlos V ^b   di Perna, Christi ^a   Brys, Lea ^a   Baetselier, de Patrick ^a   Hamers, Raymond ^b  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b FACULDADE DE MEDICINA VETERINÁRIA   (Portugal)

^c CVZ Institute Investigação Cientiflca Tropical   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

CLONING VECTOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MEMBRANE FUSION; OUTER MEMBRANE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; EXPRESSION VECTOR; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

AFRICAN SWINE FEVER VIRUS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAPSID; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VECTORS; LIPOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; VACCINES, SYNTHETIC;

AFRICAN SWINE FEVER VIRUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLASSICAL SWINE FEVER VIRUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MIRIDAE; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 13344280367     PISSN: 0733222X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt0296-203     Document Type: Article

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