Cloning, purification and comparative structural analysis of two hypothetical proteins from Mycobacterium tuberculosis found in the human granuloma during persistence and highly up-regulated under carbon-starvation conditions

Protein Expression and Purification

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 64-74

  Luthra, Amit ^a   Malik, Shuja Shafi ^a   Ramachandran, Ravishankar ^a  

^a CENTRAL DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Hypothetical proteins; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Nested PCR; Structural characterisation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBON; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; GENETICS; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PH; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TEMPERATURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GRANULOMA; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TEMPERATURE;

MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SP.; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 53149132378     PISSN: 10465928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2008.06.011     Document Type: Article

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