Heterologous expression of mycobacterial Esx complexes in Escherichia coli for structural studies is facilitated by the use of maltose binding protein fusions.
Arbing, M.A., Chan, S., Harris, L., Kuo, E., Zhou, T.T., Ahn, C.J., Nguyen, L., He, Q., Lu, J., Menchavez, P.T., Shin, A., Holton, T., Sawaya, M.R., Cascio, D., Eisenberg, D.(2013) PLoS One 8: e81753-e81753
- PubMed: 24312350 
- DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081753
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
3OGI, 3Q4H, 4GZR, 4I0X - PubMed Abstract: 
The expression of heteroligomeric protein complexes for structural studies often requires a special coexpression strategy. The reason is that the solubility and proper folding of each subunit of the complex requires physical association with other subunits of the complex ...