Rational design of memory in eukaryotic cells

Genes and Development

Volumn 21, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 2271-2276

  Ajo Franklin, Caroline M ^a,c   Drubin, David A ^a   Eskin, Julian A ^a   Gee, Elaine P S ^b   Landgraf, Dirk ^a   Phillips, Ira ^a,d   Silver, Pamela A ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

In vivo quantitation; Memory; Positive feedback; Rational design; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BIOLOGY; CELL FUNCTION; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; YEAST CELL;

EUKARYOTIC CELLS; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENES, REPORTER; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RESEARCH DESIGN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 34548856538     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1586107     Document Type: Article

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