Using Two-Component Systems and Other Bacterial Regulatory Factors for the Fabrication of Synthetic Genetic Devices

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 422, Issue , 2007, Pages 488-512

  Ninfa, Alexander J ^a   Selinsky, Stephen ^a   Perry, Nicolas ^a   Atkins, Stephen ^a   Xiu Song, Qi ^a   Mayo, Avi ^a   Arps, David ^a   Woolf, Peter ^a   Atkinson, Mariette R ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMINE; PLASMID VECTOR; THIAMINE; TRYPTOPHAN;

BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOLOGY; CELL TYPE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DEVICE; ENHANCER REGION; ENZYME ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 34447096787     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(06)22025-1     Document Type: Chapter

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