Compartmentalization by directional gene expression

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

Volumn 107, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2836-2841

  Daube, Shirley S ^a   Bracha, Dan ^a   Buxboim, Amnon ^a   Bar Ziv, Roy H ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

DNA brush; DNA condensation; Excluded volume; Surface transcription; Synthetic cell

Indexed keywords

DNA; ION; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC COMPATIBILITY; MACROMOLECULE; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

CELL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; DNA; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PROTEIN ARRAY ANALYSIS; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77649261823     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0908919107     Document Type: Article

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