Approaches for refining heterologous protein production in filamentous fungi

World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2083-2094

  Sharma, Ruchika ^a   Katoch, Meenu ^a   Srivastava, P S ^b   Qazi, G N ^a  

^a CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE   (India)

^b HAMDARD UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Expression system; Filamentous fungi; Heterologous proteins

Indexed keywords

ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BIOPROCESSING; EXPRESSION SYSTEM; FERMENTABILITY; FILAMENTOUS FUNGI; HETEROLOGOUS PROTEIN PRODUCTION; HETEROLOGOUS PROTEINS; HOMOLOGOUS PROTEINS; MICROBIAL SYSTEM; MODEL ORGANISMS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PRODUCTION YIELD; PROTEIN PRODUCTION; SECRETION OF RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

FUNGI; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

PROTEINS;

ASPERGILLUS NIGER; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI;

EID: 76349125108     PISSN: 09593993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11274-009-0128-x     Document Type: Review

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