Viral Preprotoxin Signal Sequence Allows Efficient Secretion of Green Fluorescent Protein by Candida glabrata, Pichia pastoris, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 961-966

  Eiden Plach, Antje ^a   Zagorc, Tatjana ^a,b   Heintel, Tanja ^a   Carius, Yvonne ^a   Breinig, Frank ^a   Schmitt, Manfred J ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Chamber of Comm/Indust of Slovenia   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CELL CULTURE; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; PROTEINS; VIRUSES; YEAST;

ACTIVE VIRUS TOXINS; CONFOCAL FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY;

MICROBIOLOGY;

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; PROTOXIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PREPROTOXIN; VIRUS TOXIN;

MICROBIOLOGY;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; AOX1 GENE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FUNGAL GENE; GAL1 GENE; HOST CELL; K28 VIRUS; NMT1 GENE; NONHUMAN; PGK1 GENE; PICHIA PASTORIS; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SECRETION; REPORTER GENE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TPI1 GENE; VIRUS;

CANDIDA GLABRATA; CULTURE MEDIA; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MYCOTOXINS; PICHIA; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; YEASTS;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA GLABRATA; EUKARYOTA; PICHIA; PICHIA PASTORIS; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 2342480426     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.2.961-966.2004     Document Type: Article

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