Timing molecular motion and production with a synthetic transcriptional clock

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

Volumn 108, Issue 40, 2011, Pages

  Franco, Elisa ^a   Friedrichs, Eike ^b   Kim, Jongmin ^c   Jungmann, Ralf ^b   Murray, Richard ^a   Winfree, Erik ^a,c   Simmel, Friedrich C ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell free circuits; DNA nanotechnology; Genelets; Modularity

Indexed keywords

APTAMER; MALACHITE GREEN;

ARTICLE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA STRUCTURE;

APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; ROSANILINE DYES; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 80053650824     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1100060108     Document Type: Article

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