Cloning, expression, and purification of the 27 kDa (MPT51, Rv3803c) protein of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Protein Expression and Purification

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 53-60

  Ramalingam, B ^a   Baulard, Alain R ^b   Locht, Camille ^b   Narayanan, P R ^a   Raja, Alamelu ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN TUBERCULOSIS   (India)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

27 kDa antigen; Cloning; ELISA; HPLC; Over expression; Pulmonary tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RV3808C PROTEIN, MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; RABBIT; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASES; RABBITS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TUBERCULOSIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 3042688955     PISSN: 10465928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2004.01.016     Document Type: Article

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