Mining logic gates in prokaryotic transcriptional regulation networks

FEBS Letters

Volumn 582, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1237-1244

  Silva Rocha, Rafael ^a   de Lorenzo, Víctor ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Catabolic regulator; Digital circuit; Logic gate; Metagenome; Orthogonalization

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE;

BINDING AFFINITY; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE REPRESSION; GENOME; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEOMICS; SHORT SURVEY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 41149090591     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2008.01.060     Document Type: Short Survey

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