Efficient agroinfiltration of plants for high-level transient expression of recombinant proteins

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 77, 2013, Pages

  Leuzinger, Kahlin ^a   Dent, Matthew ^a   Hurtado, Jonathan ^a   Stahnke, Jake ^a   Lai, Huafang ^a   Zhou, Xiaohong ^a   Chen, Qiang ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium tumefaciens; Agroinfiltration; Antibodies; Bioengineering; Cellular biology; DsRed; Geminiviral vectors; Gene expression; Gene transfer techniques; Genetics; GFP; Green fluorescent proteins; Imaging; Issue 77; Microbiology; Molecular biology; Monoclonal; Monoclonal antibody; Nicotiana benthamiana; Plant biology; Plant infiltration; Plant model; Plant proteins; Plant viruses; Plant made pharmaceuticals; Recombinant proteins; Synthetic; Syringe agroinfiltration; Vaccines; Vacuum agroinfiltration; Virology; Virus like particle

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880841565     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/50521     Document Type: Article

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