Adjustment of Codon Usage Frequencies by Codon Harmonization Improves Protein Expression and Folding

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 705, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-13

  Angov, Evelina ^a   Legler, Patricia M ^a   Mease, Ryan M ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

circular dichroism; Codon harmonization; codon optimization; codon usage; expression; protein folding; protein structure; protein translation; solubility

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CODON USAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CODON; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA;

ALGORITHMS; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, TRANSFER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 79952470599     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61737-967-3_1     Document Type: Chapter

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