Production and characterization of recombinant protein preparations of Endonuclease G-homologs from yeast, C. elegans and humans

Protein Expression and Purification

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 99-106

  Kieper, Jana ^a   Lauber, Christiane ^a   Gimadutdinow, Oleg ^b   Urbaǹska, Anna ^c   Cymerman, Iwona ^c   Ghosh, Mahua ^d   Szczesny, Bartosz ^e   Meiss, Gregor ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b KAZAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH KOLKATA   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; DNA repair; Endonuclease; Exonuclease; Mitochondria; Refolding

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955365267     PISSN: 10465928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2010.04.001     Document Type: Article

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