Synthetic gene brushes: A structure-function relationship

Molecular Systems Biology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Buxboim, Amnon ^a   Daube, Shirley S ^a   Bar Ziv, Roy ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Biochip; Cell free gene expression; In vitro synthetic biology; Molecular crowding; Nano biotechnology

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; FIREFLY LUCIFERASE; RNA POLYMERASE; SYNTHETIC DNA; BACTERIOPHAGE T7 RNA POLYMERASE; DNA; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; POLYMER; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTENSION GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE STRUCTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELL FREE SYSTEM; CHEMISTRY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELL-FREE SYSTEM; DNA; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, SYNTHETIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; POLYMERS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 42149175419     PISSN: 17444292     EISSN: 17444292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/msb.2008.20     Document Type: Article

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