Overexpression of a synthetic gene encoding human alpha interferon in Escherichia coli

Protein Expression and Purification

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 353-359

  Neves, Fernanda O ^a,b   Ho, Paulo L ^a   Raw, Isaias ^a   Pereira, Carlos A ^a   Moreira, Cristiani ^a   Nascimento, Ana L T O ^a  

^a INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

^b Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Gene synthesis; IFN ; Protein expression; Protein purification

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SYNTHETIC CONSTRUCT; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 2642516494     PISSN: 10465928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2004.02.005     Document Type: Article

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