High-throughput production of human proteins for crystallization: The SGC experience

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-13

  Savitsky, Pavel ^a   Bray, James ^a   Cooper, Christopher D O ^a   Marsden, Brian D ^a,b   Mahajan, Pravin ^a   Burgess Brown, Nicola A ^a   Gileadi, Opher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ligation independent cloning; Open source; Protein expression; Protein purification; Structural genomics; Structure prediction

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE;

ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTUM YIELD; STRUCTURAL GENOMICS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS; PROTEOMICS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 77956181585     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: 10958657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2010.06.008     Document Type: Article

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