Engineered gene circuits

Nature

Volumn 420, Issue 6912, 2002, Pages 224-230

  Hasty, Jeff ^a   McMillen, David ^b   Collins, J J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PROTEINS;

MOLECULAR NETWORK DIAGRAMS;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

GENE; GENETICS;

AUTOREGULATION; COMPUTER PREDICTION; ELECTRIC CURRENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CELLS; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOMICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEMS THEORY;

EID: 0037079012     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01257     Document Type: Review

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