Production of Nα-acetylated thymosin α1 in Escherichia coli

Microbial Cell Factories

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Ren, Yuantao ^a,c   Yao, Xueqin ^b   Dai, Hongmei ^a   Li, Shulong ^a   Fang, Hongqing ^a   Chen, Huipeng ^a   Zhou, Changlin ^c  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

^b CHINESE PLA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

^c CHINA PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

N acetylation thymosin 1; Protein cleavage; RimJ; Spl DnaX intein

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; DITHIOTHREITOL; HYBRID PROTEIN; INTEIN; MERCAPTOETHANOL; SEPHAROSE; SUCCINIMIDE; THYMOSIN ALPHA1; ARYLAMINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE GAMMA; DNAX PROTEIN, BACTERIA; DRUG DERIVATIVE; HIS HIS HIS HIS HIS HIS; HIS-HIS-HIS-HIS-HIS-HIS; HISTIDINE; ISOENZYME; N ACETYLTRANSFERASE 1; N-ACETYLTRANSFERASE 1; OLIGOPEPTIDE; THYMOSIN;

ACETYLATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA; SPIRULINA PLATENSIS;

ACETYLATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARYLAMINE N-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA POLYMERASE III; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HISTIDINE; ISOENZYMES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGOPEPTIDES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; THYMOSIN;

EID: 79955016670     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2859-10-26     Document Type: Article

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