Reconstruction and expression of the MRI-contrast protein, ferritin, with recombinant rabies vectors

Biotechnology Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 743-748

  Liu, Lingling ^a   Gong, Kai ^a   Ming, Pinggang ^b,c   Huang, Ying ^b   Tang, Qing ^b   Xu, Gelin ^c   Yan, Jiaxin ^c   Zhao, Nanming ^a   Zhang, Xiufang ^a   Gong, Yandao ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR VIRAL DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^c Wuhan Institute of Biological Product   (China)

Author keywords

Contrast agent; Ferritin; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Rabies vectors

Indexed keywords

BIO-MOLECULAR; CONTRAST AGENT; FERRITIN; IDEAL SYSTEMS; THERAPEUTIC GENES; VECTOR SYSTEMS;

CLONING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEIC ACIDS; VIRUSES;

VECTORS;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; FERRITIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL LINE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GENETICS; HAMSTER; HUMAN; METABOLISM; RABIES VIRUS;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CONTRAST MEDIA; CRICETINAE; FERRITINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; RABIES VIRUS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

RABIES VIRUS;

EID: 77952239722     PISSN: 01415492     EISSN: 15736776     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10529-010-0229-5     Document Type: Article

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