Functional expression of a Drosophila antifungal peptide in Escherichia coli

Protein Expression and Purification

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 457-462

  Yuan, Yuzhe ^a   Gao, Bin ^a   Zhu, Shunyi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

CS scaffold; Drosomycin; Innate immunity; Protein expression

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; DROSOMYCIN PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DROSOPHILA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 33846464611     PISSN: 10465928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2006.10.024     Document Type: Article

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