Construction of a genetic toggle switch in Escherichia coli

Nature

Volumn 403, Issue 6767, 2000, Pages 339-342

  Gardner, Timothy S ^a,b   Cantor, Charles R ^a   Collins, James J ^a,b  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELL POPULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE THERAPY; HYSTERESIS; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; CYANOBACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0034688174     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35002131     Document Type: Article

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