Experimental determination of the evolvability of a transcription factor

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 44, 2009, Pages 18650-18655

  Maerkl, Sebastian J ^a,b   Quake, Stephen R ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biophysics; Evolution; Microfluidics

Indexed keywords

MAX PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA BINDING; IN VITRO STUDY; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; MUTATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 73249134379     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0907688106     Document Type: Article

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