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William Gillette1, Peter Frank1, Shelley Perkins1

  • 1Protein Expression Laboratory, NCI RAS Initiative, Cancer Research Technology Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD, USA.

Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|June 2, 2019
PubMed

Keywords:
BaculovirusCarboxylmethylationFarnesyl transferaseFarnesylationInsect cellsPrenylationProtein engineeringProtein expressionRas proteins

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