Co-solvents as stabilizing agents during heterologous overexpression in Escherichia coli - application to chlamydial penicillin-binding protein 6.

Heterologous overexpression of foreign proteins in Escherichia coli often leads to insoluble aggregates of misfolded inactive proteins, so-called inclusion bodies. To solve this problem use of chaperones or in vitro refolding procedures are the means of choice. These methods are time consuming and c...

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Main Authors: Christian Otten, Stefania De Benedetti, Ahmed Gaballah, Henrike Bühl, Anna Klöckner, Jarryd Brauner, Hans-Georg Sahl, Beate Henrichfreise
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4388811?pdf=render