New trends and affinity tag designs for recombinant protein purification

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 54-61

  Wood, David W ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; MALTOSE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; AFFINITY LABELING; INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEIN;

ANTIBODY AFFINITY; BINDING AFFINITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HISTONE UBIQUITINATION; NONHUMAN; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN REFOLDING; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVIEW; STREPTOMYCES; AFFINITY LABELING; CHEMISTRY; DRUG DESIGN; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION;

AFFINITY LABELS; DRUG DESIGN; HUMANS; INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEINS; PROTEIN FOLDING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 84901035269     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2014.04.006     Document Type: Review

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