Engineering prokaryotic gene circuits

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 27-37

  Michalodimitrakis, Konstantinos ^a   Isalan, Mark ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

Author keywords

Engineering bacteria; Gene network; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL COMMUNICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; REVIEW;

BACTERIA; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; FUNGI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENES, SYNTHETIC; GENETIC ENGINEERING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 57549093995     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2008.00139.x     Document Type: Review

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