Monoclonal antibodies assisting refolding of firefly luciferase

Protein Science

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1851-1858

  Xu, Qin ^a,c   Xie, Zhiqun ^a   Ding, Jianfang ^a   Lin, Sheng Xiang ^b   Xu, GenJun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY   (China)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Enzyme activity; Epitopes; Luciferase; Monoclonal antibodies; Protein aggregation; Protein unfolding and refolding

Indexed keywords

LUCIFERASE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPITOPE MAPPING; FLY; HYDROPHOBICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; EPITOPES; GUANIDINE; LUCIFERASES, FIREFLY; MICE; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 3042528540     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.04699904     Document Type: Article

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