Npro autoprotease fusion technology: Development, characteristics, and influential factors

Separation Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 2194-2209

  Dürauer, Astrid ^a,b   Ahrer, Karin ^a,b   Kaar, Waltraud ^a,b   Achmüller, Clemens ^b,c   Sprinzl, Wolfgang ^b   Mayer, Sabrina ^b   Auer, Bernhard ^b,c   Jungbauer, Alois ^a,b   Hahn, Rainer ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b AUSTRIAN CENTRE OF INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Autoprotease; Classical swine fever virus; Cleavage; Fusion protein; Kinetics; Refolding

Indexed keywords

AUTOPROTEASE; CLEAVAGE; FEVER VIRUS; FUSION PROTEINS; REFOLDING;

AMINO ACIDS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; OPTIMIZATION; RATE CONSTANTS; VIRUSES;

PROTEINS;

EID: 77958595138     PISSN: 01496395     EISSN: 15205754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15228967.2010.507552     Document Type: Article

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