Recombinant protein purification by self-cleaving aggregation tag

Nature Protocols

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2257-2262

  Wu, Wan Yi ^a   Mee, Courtney ^a   Califano, Filomena ^b   Banki, Reza ^a   Wood, David W ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b ST FRANCIS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; INTEIN; PEPTIDE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INTEINS; PEPTIDES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 34548841392     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2006.314     Document Type: Article

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