The pCri system: A vector collection for recombinant protein expression and purification

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Goulas, Theodoros ^a   Cuppari, Anna ^a   Garcia Castellanos, Raquel ^a,d   Snipas, Scott ^b   Glockshuber, Rudi ^c   Arolas, Joan L ^a   Gomis Rüth, F Xavier ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN BIOMEDICINE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MEMBRANE INTEGRATING SEQUENCE FOR TRANSLATION OF INTEGRAL MEMBRANE PROTEIN CONSTRUCT; METALLOPROTEINASE; POLYHISTIDINE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; STREPTAVIDIN BINDING PEPTIDE; THIOREDOXIN; THIOREDOXIN A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CARBOXYPEPTIDASE A; CPA3 PROTEIN, HUMAN; DISULFIDE; GLYCOPEPTIDASE; HYBRID PROTEIN;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HYDROLYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PCRI SYSTEM; PICHIA PASTORIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION ASSAY; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RESTRICTION SITE; SOLUBILITY; CHEMISTRY; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; PICHIA; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN PROCESSING;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; PICHIA PASTORIS; PROKARYOTA; TOBACCO ETCH VIRUS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CARBOXYPEPTIDASES A; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DISULFIDES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC VECTORS; PEPTIDE-N4-(N-ACETYL-BETA-GLUCOSAMINYL) ASPARAGINE AMIDASE; PICHIA; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 84914696651     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0112643     Document Type: Article

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