Design and construction of an in-plant activation cassette for transgene expression and recombinant protein production in plants

Nature Protocols

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1010-1027

  Dugdale, Benjamin ^a   Mortimer, Cara L ^a   Kato, Maiko ^a   James, Tess A ^a   Harding, Robert M ^a   Dale, James L ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARNASE; BETA GLUCURONIDASE; INDUSTRIAL ENZYME; POLYHISTIDINE TAG; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; REP ACTIVATOR PROTEIN; REPA ACTIVATOR PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEASE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRYPSINOGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN; VITRONECTIN; ALCOHOL;

APOPLAST; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CYTOSOL; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; GEMINIVIRUS; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GENE PRODUCT; GENE REPLICATION; HYGROMYCIN B PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE GENE; IN PLANT ACTIVATION EXPRESSION; INTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REP ACTIVATOR GENE; REPA ACTIVATOR GENE; REPLISOME; RNA SPLICING; ROLLING CIRCLE REPLICATION; SYNTHETIC INTRON; TOBACCO; TOBACCO YELLOW DWARF GEMINIVIRUS; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; VITRONECTIN GENE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GEMINIVIRIDAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ETHANOL; GEMINIVIRIDAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MODELS, GENETIC; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84899499756     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2014.068     Document Type: Article

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