Commentary Open Access
Volume 3 | Issue 1 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.46439/signaling.3.051
Recombinant protein synthesis and isolation of human interferon alpha-2 in cyanobacteria
Anastasios Melis1,*, Bharat Kumar Majhi1
- 1Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, 111 Koshland Hall, MC-3102, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3102, USA
Corresponding Author
Anastasios Melis, melis@berkeley.edu
Received Date: October 26, 2024
Accepted Date: November 13, 2024
Majhi BK, Melis A. Recombinant protein synthesis and isolation of human interferon alpha-2 in cyanobacteria. Cell Signal. 2025;3(1):23-26.
Copyright: © 2025 Majhi BK, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Keywords
Cyanobacteria, Interferon-alpha2, Phycocyanin, Tobacco Etch Virus
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