Expression and functional characterization of the plant antimicrobial snakin-1 and defensin recombinant proteins

Protein Expression and Purification

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 12-17

  Kovalskaya, Natalia ^a,b   Hammond, Rosemarie W ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial proteins; Inclusion bodies; Plant pathogens; Protein solubilization; Recombinant proteins

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; DEFENSIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; NITRILOTRIACETATE NICKEL; NITRILOTRIACETIC ACID; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SN1 PROTEIN, SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL INCLUSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; PLANT GENE; POTATO; PROTEIN RENATURATION; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEFENSINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, PLANT; INCLUSION BODIES; NITRILOTRIACETIC ACID; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN RENATURATION; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA; CLAVIBACTER MICHIGANENSIS SUBSP. SEPEDONICUS; COLLETOTRICHUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE PV. SYRINGAE; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE PV. TABACI;

EID: 54849422795     PISSN: 10465928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2008.08.013     Document Type: Article

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