Alister J Cumming1, Diana Khananisho1, Mateusz Balka1

  • 1Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, Stockholm SE-19468, Sweden.

ACS synthetic biology
|April 27, 2024
PubMed
概括

一个新的生物传感器在Escherichia coli的重组蛋白质生产过程中检测细胞应激. 这种工具有助于优化有效的蛋白质分泌和折叠的条件,从而改善生物质和蛋白质产量.

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