Abstract
Yeast are a valuable system for recombinant serpin production due to their ability to synthesize large amounts of heterologous gene products as well as their expression of folding chaperones and lack of endogenous serpin genes. In this chapter, we describe a method for intracellular expression of cytoplasmic serpins in the yeast Pichia pastoris. We also give details on how this system can be exploited to produce polymer-forming mutants of secretory serpins.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Methods in Enzymology, Volume 501: Serpin Structure and Evolution |
Editors | James C Whisstock, Phillip I Bird |
Place of Publication | USA |
Publisher | Academic Press |
Pages | 1 - 12 |
Number of pages | 12 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780123859501 |
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Publication status | Published - 2011 |