Comparative production analysis of three phlebovirus nucleoproteins under denaturing or non-denaturing conditions for crystallographic studies

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Lantez, Violaine ^a   Dalle, Karen ^a   Charrel, Rémi ^b   Baronti, Cécile ^b   Canard, Bruno ^a   Coutard, Bruno ^a  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b Aix Marseille University IRD 190 Inserm 1207   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS NUCLEOPROTEIN; NUCLEOPROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGOMERIZATION; ORGANISMS BY LIFE CYCLE STAGE; PHLEBOVIRUS; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RIFT VALLEY FEVER BUNYAVIRUS; SANDFLY FEVER SICILIAN VIRUS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TOSCANA VIRUS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID; BUNYAVIRUS; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM;

CRYSTALLIZATION; NUCLEOPROTEINS; PHLEBOVIRUS; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS; SANDFLY FEVER NAPLES VIRUS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 79851504178     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000936     Document Type: Article

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