A synthetic circuit for selectively arresting daughter cells to create aging populations

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2727-2735

  Afonso, Bruno ^a   Silver, Pamela A ^a   Ajo Franklin, Caroline M ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CELL AGING; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL DEATH; CELL DIVISION; CELL GROWTH; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAUGHTER CELL; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; YEAST CELL; CELL CYCLE; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

5-FLUOROOROTIC ACID; DRUG DERIVATIVE; FLUOROOROTIC ACID; OROTIC ACID; OROTIDINE 5' PHOSPHATE DECARBOXYLASE;

CELL CYCLE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; OROTIC ACID; OROTIDINE-5'-PHOSPHATE DECARBOXYLASE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 77952522193     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq075     Document Type: Article

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