High level expression of a functionally active cholera toxin B: Rabies glycoprotein fusion protein in tobacco seeds

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1827-1836

  Tiwari, Siddharth ^a   Mishra, Devesh K ^a   Roy, Sribash ^a   Singh, Ankit ^a   Singh, P K ^a   Tuli, Rakesh ^a  

^a CSIR NATIONAL BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Anti cholera rabies vaccine antigen; Edible vaccine; Fusion protein; Seed specific promoter; Transgenic plant

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT DNA; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; PLANT GENOME; PLANT SEED; RABIES VIRUS; TOBACCO; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHOLERA TOXIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, PLANT; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; GLYCOPROTEINS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RABIES VIRUS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEEDS; TOBACCO; TRANSGENES; VIRAL PROTEINS;

NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; RABIES VIRUS;

EID: 71049159502     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-009-0782-3     Document Type: Article

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