Lactococcus lactis provides an efficient platform for production of disulfide-rich recombinant proteins from Plasmodium falciparum

Microbial Cell Factories

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Singh, Susheel K ^a,b,c   Tiendrebeogo, Régis Wendpayangde ^a,b,c   Chourasia, Bishwanath Kumar ^a,b,c   Kana, Ikhlaq Hussain ^a,b,c   Singh, Subhash ^d   Theisen, Michael ^a,b,c  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

^d CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE   (India)

Author keywords

Disulfide rich protein; Lactococcus lactis; Malaria; Merozoite antigens; Plasmodium falciparum

Indexed keywords

DISULFIDE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HYBRID PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RECOMBINANT GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM;

DISULFIDES; GENE EXPRESSION; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 85045008438     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12934-018-0902-2     Document Type: Article

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