Improved fusion protein expression of EGFP via the mutation of both Kozak and the initial ATG codon

Cellular and Molecular Biology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 362-369

  Dai, Chao ^a   Cao, Zhijian ^a   Wu, Yingliang ^a   Yi, Hong ^a   Jiang, Dahe ^a   Li, Wenxin ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

EGFP; Fusion protein expression; Scorpion toxin; Subcellular protein localization

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; SCORPION VENOM;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTE; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FLUORESCENCE; FUSION GENE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCORPION; START CODON; WESTERN BLOTTING;

SCORPIONES;

BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCORPION VENOMS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 38049173308     PISSN: 14258153     EISSN: 16891392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s11658-007-0008-z     Document Type: Article

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