Prokaryotic expression and purification of soluble maize Ac transposase

Molecular Biotechnology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 685-691

  Lamb Palmer, Neil Dylan ^a   Singh, Manjit ^a   Dalton, John P ^a   Singh, Jaswinder ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

AcTPase; E. coli; Expression; His Tag; LC MS MS; Maize; Purification

Indexed keywords

ACTPASE; E. COLI; EXPRESSION; HIS-TAG; LC-MS/MS; MAIZE;

CELL CULTURE; CLONING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

PURIFICATION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSPOSASE; TRYPSIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE CASSETTE; MAIZE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CELLS, CULTURED; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOME, PLANT; PLANT PROTEINS; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; TRANSPOSASES; ZEA MAYS;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84882901149     PISSN: 10736085     EISSN: 15590305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12033-012-9610-z     Document Type: Article

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