Expression of Mycoplasma proteins carrying an affinity tag in M. pneumoniae allows rapid purification and circumvents problems related to the aberrant genetic code

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 7799-7801

  Schmidl, Sebastian R ^a   Hames, Claudine ^a   Stülke, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; AMINO ACIDS; CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; PURIFICATION;

GENETIC CODING; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; RAPID PURIFICATION;

PROTEINS;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; STREPTAVIDIN; TRYPTOPHAN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

BACTERIUM; CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MYCOPLASMA; STOP CODON;

MOLLICUTES; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; CODON, TERMINATOR; GENETIC CODE; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 38449122258     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01861-07     Document Type: Article

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