Tagging Recombinant Proteins to Enhance Solubility and Aid Purification

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 681, Issue , 2011, Pages 151-175

  Walls, Dermot ^a   Loughran, Sinéad T ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Affinity chromatography; Protein; Solubility; Tag

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; MALTOSE BINDING PROTEIN; SUMO 1 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; REVIEW; SOLUBILITY;

ANIMALS; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HUMANS; MALTOSE-BINDING PROTEINS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SOLUBILITY; SUMO-1 PROTEIN;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 79952200480     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60761-913-0_9     Document Type: Chapter

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