Genetic parts to program bacteria

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 548-557

  Voigt, Christopher A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR MACHINES; CELLULAR PROCESSES; GENETIC CIRCUITS; SYNTHETIC CONSTRUCTS;

BIOMATERIALS; BIOSENSORS; DNA; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); GENETIC ENGINEERING; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; LOGIC PROGRAMMING;

BACTERIA;

APTAMER; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA;

BACTERIUM; CELL COMMUNICATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MICROORGANISM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSOR;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33748953866     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2006.09.001     Document Type: Review

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