Application of a scalable plant transient gene expression platform for malaria vaccine development

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 6, Issue DEC, 2015, Pages

  Spiegel, Holger ^a   Boes, Alexander ^a   Voepel, Nadja ^a   Beiss, Veronique ^a   Edgue, Gueven ^a   Rademacher, Thomas ^a   Sack, Markus ^b   Schillberg, Stefan ^a   Reimann, Andreas ^a   Fischer, Rainer ^a,b  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND APPLIED ECOLOGY IME   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Expression screening; Heat stability; Multi domain fusion antigens; Nicotiana benthamiana plants; Plasmodium falciparum; Red fluorescent protein

Indexed keywords

EID: 84954062171     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.01169     Document Type: Article

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