Construction of homo- and heteropolymers of plant ferritin subunits using an in vitro protein expression system

Protein Expression and Purification

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 237-246

  Masuda, Taro ^a   Goto, Fumiyuki ^b   Yoshihara, Toshihiro ^b   Ezure, Toru ^c   Suzuki, Takashi ^c   Kobayashi, Shinichiro ^c   Shikata, Masamitsu ^c   Utsumi, Shigeru ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

^c SHIMADZU CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Co expression; Heteropolymer; Homopolymer; In vitro protein expression; Plant ferritin subunit

Indexed keywords

BIOPOLYMER; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FERRITIN; IRON; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOPOLYMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FERRITINS; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; IRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN SUBUNITS;

GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 35448945259     PISSN: 10465928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2007.07.011     Document Type: Article

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