Efficient high level expression of peptides and proteins as fusion proteins with the N-terminal domain of L9: Application to the villin headpiece helical subdomain

Protein Expression and Purification

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 234-240

  Bi, Yuan ^a   Tang, Yuefeng ^a   Raleigh, Daniel P ^a   Cho, Jae Hyun ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fusion protein; N terminal domain of L9; Protein expression; Protein fusion; Villin headpiece

Indexed keywords

ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN L9; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; VILLIN;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS;

EID: 33646115805     PISSN: 10465928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2005.10.023     Document Type: Article

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