Abstract
The baculovirus expression system has proven extremely useful in the investigation of the function and structure of a wide variety of proteins produced by the expression of a foreign gene (1). Essential to this system is the isolation of a recombinant baculovirus expressing the foreign gene. This process has, until recently, been an onerous and time-consuming task. A large number of manipulations are required before the desired gene product can be produced at high levels.
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Day, A., Wright, T., Sewall, A., Price-Laface, M., Srivastava, N., Finlayson, M. (1995). Rapid procedures for the isolation and PCR analysis of recombinant baculovirus. In: Richardson, C.D. (eds) Baculovirus Expression Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 39. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1385/0-89603-272-8:143
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