Soluble expression of recombinant proteins in the cytoplasm of Escherichia coli

Microbial Cell Factories

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Sørensen, Hans Peter ^a   Mortensen, Kim Kusk ^b  

^a DANISH TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; HYBRID PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; COST; CYTOPLASM; DENSITY; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST CELL; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TARGETING; RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY; REVIEW; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 13644262805     PISSN: 14752859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2859-4-1     Document Type: Review

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