Codon optimization to enhance expression yields insights into chloroplast translation

Plant Physiology

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 62-77

  Kwon, Kwang Chul ^a   Chan, Hui Ting ^a   León, Ileana R ^b   Williams Carrier, Rosalind ^c   Barkan, Alice ^c   Daniell, Henry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NOVO NORDISK A S   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODON; PHOTOSYSTEM II; PROTEOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHLOROPLAST; CODON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HUMAN; LETTUCE; METABOLISM; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSYSTEM II; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEOMICS; RIBOSOME; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOBACCO; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHLOROPLASTS; CODON; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; LETTUCE; PHOTOSYSTEM II PROTEIN COMPLEX; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEOME; PROTEOMICS; RIBOSOMES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TOBACCO; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84984879036     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.16.00981     Document Type: Article

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