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This is an Accepted (Post-Print) Manuscript of an article published by Elsevier BV in Protein Expression and Purification in June 2008, available online: /science/article/pii/S1046592808000521. * Manuscript Cloning, Expression, Purification and Characterization of a DsbA-like protein from Wolbachia pipientis 1 2 1 1 1 Mareike Kurz , Iñaki Iturbe-Ormaetxe , Russell Jarrott , Nathan Cowieson , Gautier Robin , 1,3 1,3 4 4 2 Alun Jones , Gordon J. King , Patrick Frei , Rudi Glockshuber , Scott L. O’Neill , Begoña 1* 1* Heras and Jennifer L. Martin 1Institute for Molecular Bioscience, 2School of Integrative Biology, 3ARC Special Research Centre for Functional and Applied Genomics, The University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD 4072, Australia, 4Institute for Microbiology, ETH Zürich, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland * Joint Corresponding Authors: Email: b.heras@.au, phone: +61 7 fax: +61 7 Email: j.martin@.au , phone: +61 7 fax: +61 7 1 ABSTRACT Wolbachia pipientis are obligate endosymbionts that infect a wide range of insect and other arthropod species. They act as reproductive parasites by manipulating the hos