An Escherichia coli strain for expression of the connexin45 carboxyl terminus attached to the 4th transmembrane domain

Frontiers in Pharmacology

Volumn 4 AUG, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Kopanic, Jennifer L ^a   Al Mugotir, Mona ^a   Zach, Sydney ^a   Das, Srustidhar ^a   Grosely, Rosslyn ^a   Sorgen, Paul L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Connexins; Membrane protein expression; Minimal media; NMR; Rare codons

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 45;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOPHYSICS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL DENSITY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; ISOTHERMAL TITRATION CALORIMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PLASMID; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

EID: 84883523636     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16639812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2013.00106     Document Type: Article

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