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Improved production of membrane proteins in Escherichia coli by selective codon substitutions

Morten H H Nørholm1, Stephen Toddo, Minttu T I Virkki

  • 1Center for Biomembrane Research, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden. morno@biosustain.dtu.dk

FEBS Letters
|June 18, 2013
PubMed

Keywords:
AraHCodon optimizationEscherichia coliMembrane proteinNarKOver-expressionSynthetic coding sequenceTransporter

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