Cloning, overexpression, and characterization of cobrotoxin

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 320, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1374-1381

  Hsieh, Hui Chu ^a   Kumar, Thallampuranam Krishnaswamy S ^b   Yu, Chin ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

All sheet; Cobrotoxin; Receptor; Resonance assignment; Snake venom

Indexed keywords

COBROTOXIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PROTEIN A;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; COBRA NEUROTOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NAJA; NAJA ATRA; NAJA NAJA; SERPENTES; TORPEDO;

EID: 3142769753     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.06.091     Document Type: Article

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