Engineering chloroplasts for high-level foreign protein expression

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1132, Issue , 2014, Pages 93-106

  Bock, Ralph ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

3 UTR; 5 UTR; Chloroplast; Codon optimization; Downstream box; Integration site; Operon expression; Plastid; Plastid transformation; Promoter strength; Protein localization; Protein stability; Transcription; Translational regulation

Indexed keywords

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CELL ENGINEERING; CHLOROPLAST; CODON USAGE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASTID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; TRANSGENE; 3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHLOROPLAST GENOME; GENETICS; PLANT; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHLOROPLASTS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME, CHLOROPLAST; PLANTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84909647224     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-995-6_5     Document Type: Article

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