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Enhanced chloroplast transgene expression in a nuclear mutant of Chlamydomonas.
Plant biotechnology journal - 1 Jun 2011
Michelet Laure, Lefebvre-Legendre Linnka, Burr Sarah E, Rochaix Jean-David, Goldschmidt-Clermont Michel
Abstract excerpt
Chloroplast transformation in microalgae offers great promise for the production of proteins of pharmaceutical interest or for the development of novel biofuels. For many applications, high level expression of transgenes is desirable. We have transformed the chloroplast of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii with two genes, acrV and vapA, which encode antigens from the fish pathogen Aeromonas salmonicida. The promoters and...
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