Construction and enhancement of a minimal genetic AND logic gate

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 637-642

  Sayut, Daniel J ^a   Niu, Yan ^a,b   Sun, Lianhong ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR PHENOTYPES; CELLULAR RESPONSE; DIRECTED EVOLUTIONS; EXPRESSION LEVELS; GENETIC CIRCUITS; GENETIC NETWORKS; HYBRID PROMOTERS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING; LAC REPRESSORS; MULTIPLE INPUTS; MUTANT LIBRARIES; QUORUM-SENSING; REGULATORY CIRCUITS; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATIONS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATORS;

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); NUCLEIC ACIDS; RNA;

LOGIC CIRCUITS;

CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; MUTATION; SIGNALING;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETICS, MICROBIAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 59649112626     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01684-08     Document Type: Article

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