Versatile RNA-sensing transcriptional regulators for engineering genetic networks

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

Volumn 108, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 8617-8622

  Lucks, Julius B ^a,b,e   Qi, Lei ^a   Mutalik, Vivek K ^c   Wang, Denise ^a   Arkin, Adam P ^a,c,d  

^a University of California at Berkeley   (United States)

^b Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene networks; Orthogonal regulators; Regulatory systems

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; RNA;

ARTICLE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MUTAGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUORUM SENSING; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; RNA; RNA, ANTISENSE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79957700542     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1015741108     Document Type: Article

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