Thioredoxin as a fusion tag for carrier-driven crystallization

Protein Science

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2070-2079

  Corsini, Lorenzo ^a   Hothorn, Michael ^a,d   Scheffzek, Klaus ^a   Sattler, Michael ^a,b,c   Stier, Gunter ^a,e  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^e UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Carrier driven crystallization; Fusion tag; Linker sequence; NMR relaxation; Puf60; Thioredoxin

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN GSAM; HYBRID PROTEIN GSPPM; THIOREDOXIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PUF60; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR U2AF; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIMERIZATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; THIOREDOXINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 56749155585     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: 1469896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.037564.108     Document Type: Article

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