New molecular reporters for rapid protein folding assays

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Cabantous, Stéphanie ^a,b   Rogers, Yvonne ^a   Terwilliger, Thomas C ^a   Waldo, Geoffrey S ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b INSTITUT DE PHARMACOLOGIE ET DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL INCLUSION; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC SELECTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN VARIANT; REPORTER GENE; RIBOSOME; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

EID: 48649093851     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002387     Document Type: Article

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