The pedestrian watchmaker: Genetic clocks from engineered oscillators

FEBS Letters

Volumn 583, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 3931-3937

  Cookson, Natalie A ^a   Tsimring, Lev S ^b   Hasty, Jeff ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Circadian clock; Genetic oscillator; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

PER1 PROTEIN; PER2 PROTEIN; PROTEIN BMAL1; PROTEIN TIMELESS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CLOCK;

BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; BIOLOGY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC REGULATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; OSCILLATOR; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; TIME;

ANIMALS; BIOENGINEERING; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 71149101382     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2009.10.089     Document Type: Review

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