Synthetic gene circuits: Design with directed evolution

Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure

Volumn 36, Issue , 2007, Pages 1-19

  Haseltine, Eric L ^a   Arnold, Frances H ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene regulation; Mathematical modeling; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

SYNTHETIC DNA;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SYNTHESIS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC SELECTION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BIOPHYSICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUTATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34347225496     PISSN: 10568700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.36.040306.132600     Document Type: Review

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