Soluble expression and one-step purification of a neurotoxin Huwentoxin-I in Escherichia coli

Protein Expression and Purification

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 154-159

  Che, Nanying ^a   Wang, Lili ^a   Gao, Yin ^a   An, Chengcai ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Huwentoxin I; Intein; N VSCC; Neurotoxin; Soluble expression; Whole cell patch clamp

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL N TYPE; HUWENTOXIN I; NEUROTOXIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; REPTILIAN PROTEIN; SPIDER VENOM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRAIN CORTEX; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG TOLERANCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; RAT; SOLUBILITY; SPIDER; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNELS, N-TYPE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHINA; DRUG TOLERANCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEURONS; NEUROTOXINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REPTILIAN PROTEINS; SOLUBILITY; SPIDER VENOMS; SPIDERS;

ARANEAE; AVES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ORNITHOCTONUS HUWENA;

EID: 61749100890     PISSN: 10465928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2009.02.002     Document Type: Article

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