Expression in tobacco and purification of beak and feather disease virus capsid protein fused to elastin-like polypeptides

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 191, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 55-62

  Duvenage, Lucian ^a   Hitzeroth, Inga I ^a   Meyers, Ann E ^a   Rybicki, Edward P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Beak and feather disease virus; BFDV; ELP; Nicotiana; Purification; Transient

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN; ELASTIN; SUBUNIT VACCINE; VIRUS VACCINE;

ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; BEAK AND FEATHER DISEASE; CENTRIFUGATION; CIRCOVIRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INVERSE TRANSITION CYCLING; MEMBRANE FILTER; NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PSITTACINE; VACCINATION;

ANIMALS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CAPSID PROTEINS; CIRCOVIRUS; ELASTIN; FILTRATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TOBACCO; VIRAL VACCINES;

EID: 84877328154     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: 18790984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2013.03.028     Document Type: Article

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