Large-scale Production of Membrane Proteins Fused to a Truncated SecA inEscherichia coli

1992 ◽  
Vol 56 (9) ◽  
pp. 1512-1514
Author(s):  
Shin-ichi Matsuyama ◽  
Yasuhiro Fujita ◽  
Shoji Mizushima
2002 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 511-517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabelle Mus-Veteau

Membrane proteins (MPs) are responsible for the interface between the exterior and the interior of the cell. These proteins are implicated in numerous diseases, such as cancer, cystic fibrosis, epilepsy, hyperinsulinism, heart failure, hypertension and Alzheimer's disease. However, studies on these disorders are hampered by a lack of structural information about the proteins involved. Structural analysis requires large quantities of pure and active proteins. The majority of medically and pharmaceutically relevant MPs are present in tissues at very low concentration, which makes heterologous expression in large-scale production-adapted cells a prerequisite for structural studies. Obtaining mammalian MP structural data depends on the development of methods that allow the production of large quantities of MPs. This review focuses on the different heterologous expression systems, and the purification strategies, used to produce large amounts of pure mammalian MPs for structural proteomics.


2008 ◽  
Vol 65 (11) ◽  
pp. 1729-1755 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Junge ◽  
B. Schneider ◽  
S. Reckel ◽  
D. Schwarz ◽  
V. Dötsch ◽  
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1993 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-131
Author(s):  
Naureen Talha

The literature on female labour in Third World countries has become quite extensive. India, being comparatively more advanced industrially, and in view of its size and population, presents a pictures of multiplicity of problems which face the female labour market. However, the author has also included Mexico in this analytical study. It is interesting to see the characteristics of developing industrialisation in two different societies: the Indian society, which is conservative, and the Mexican society, which is progressive. In the first chapter of the book, the author explains that he is not concerned with the process of industrialisation and female labour employed at different levels of work, but that he is interested in forms of production and women's employment in large-scale production, petty commodity production, marginal small production, and self-employment in the informal sector. It is only by analysis of these forms that the picture of females having a lower status is understood in its social and political setting.


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