DNA fragmentation-based combinatorial approaches to soluble protein expression. Part I. Generating DNA fragment libraries

Drug Discovery Today

Volumn 12, Issue 21-22, 2007, Pages 931-938

  Prodromou, Chrisostomos ^a,d   Savva, Renos ^b,d   Driscoll, Paul C ^c,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Domainex Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA FRAGMENT; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; POLYPEPTIDE;

BIOINFORMATICS; COMBINATORIAL LIBRARY; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYMATIC ASSAY; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENETIC CODE; GENOMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEBULIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RESTRICTION MAPPING; REVIEW; SCREENING; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL PROTEOMICS; ULTRASOUND;

COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DRUG DESIGN; GENE LIBRARY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEINS;

EID: 35748981146     PISSN: 13596446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.drudis.2007.08.012     Document Type: Review

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