A fast, robust and tunable synthetic gene oscillator

Nature

Volumn 456, Issue 7221, 2008, Pages 516-519

  Stricker, Jesse ^a   Cookson, Scott ^a   Bennett, Matthew R ^a,b   Mather, William H ^a   Tsimring, Lev S ^b   Hasty, Jeff ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABINOSE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

BIOFILM; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GENE EXPRESSION; MODELING;

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC OSCILLATOR; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MICROFLUIDICS; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; OSCILLATOR; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 57049159362     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07389     Document Type: Article

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