Preparative expression of secreted proteins in bacteria: Status report and future prospects

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 538-545

  Georgiou, George ^a   Segatori, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; DEGRADATION; QUALITY CONTROL; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

CELLULAR PROTEINS; MAMMALIAN PROTEINS; PROTEOLYTIC DEGRADATION; QUALITY CONTROL SYSTEM;

PROTEINS;

ARGININE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CELL PROTEIN; DISULFIDE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE;

BACTERIUM; BIOENGINEERING; CELL INCLUSION; CYTOPLASM; DISULFIDE BOND; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; LABORATORY; MAMMAL; MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SECRETION; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; TECHNOLOGY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA;

EID: 25844514728     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2005.07.008     Document Type: Review

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