Translational Fusion and Redirection to Thylakoid Lumen as Strategies to Enhance Accumulation of Human Papillomavirus E7 Antigen in Tobacco Chloroplasts

Molecular Biotechnology

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1021-1031

  Morgenfeld, Mauro ^a,c   Lentz, Ezequiel ^a   Segretin, María Eugenia ^a,c   Alfano, E Federico ^a   Bravo Almonacid, Fernando ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE QUILMES   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

E7 antigen; Fusion protein; Human papillomavirus; Molecular farming; Thylakoid translocation; Transplastomic tobacco

Indexed keywords

ANTIGENS; GENES; ONCOGENIC VIRUSES; PLANTS (BOTANY); TOBACCO; VACCINES;

FUSION PROTEINS; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS; LARGE SCALE PRODUCTIONS; MOLECULAR FARMING; PROTEIN ACCUMULATION; THERAPEUTIC VACCINES; THYLAKOIDS; TRANSLATIONAL FUSION;

RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

BETA GLUCURONIDASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; ONCOGENE PROTEIN E7, HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPE 16; PROTEIN E7;

CHLOROPLAST; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHENOTYPE; THYLAKOID; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

CHLOROPLASTS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GLUCURONIDASE; PAPILLOMAVIRUS E7 PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; THYLAKOIDS; TOBACCO;

EID: 84920254921     PISSN: 10736085     EISSN: 15590305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12033-014-9781-x     Document Type: Article

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