Exploration of twin-arginine translocation for expression and purification of correctly folded proteins in Escherichia coli

Microbial Biotechnology

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 403-415

  Fisher, Adam C ^a   Kim, Jae Young ^a   Perez Rodriguez, Ritsdeliz ^a   Tullman Ercek, Danielle ^b   Fish, Wallace R ^c   Henderson, Lee A ^c   Delisa, Matthew P ^a  

^a School of Chemical and Molecular Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Vybion   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MALTOSE BINDING PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; MALTOSE-BINDING PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 62649170149     PISSN: 17517907     EISSN: 17517915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7915.2008.00041.x     Document Type: Article

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