Patterning and transferring hydrogel-encapsulated bacterial cells for quantitative analysis of synthetically engineered genetic circuits

Biomaterials

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 624-633

  Choi, Woon Sun ^a   Kim, Minseok ^a   Park, Seongyong ^a   Lee, Sung Kuk ^a   Kim, Taesung ^a  

^a Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Extracellular induction; Gene expression and regulation; Hydrogel patterning; Hydrogel transferring; Intercellular communication

Indexed keywords

AGAROSE; ALGINATE HYDROGELS; BACTERIAL CELLS; CELL DENSITY; CELL PATTERNS; CONCENTRATION GRADIENTS; CONCENTRATION-DEPENDENT; EXTRACELLULAR; FLUORESCENCE PROTEINS; GENETIC CIRCUITS; INTERCELLULAR COMMUNICATION; INTERCELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS; LIVING CELL; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE PDMS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAPID ADVANCEMENT; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

BACTERIOLOGY; CELLS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; QUALITY CONTROL; SILICONES;

HYDROGELS;

AGAROSE; DIMETICONE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; CELL DENSITY; CELL ENCAPSULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HYDROGEL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ALGINATES; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; DIMETHYLPOLYSILOXANES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GLUCURONIC ACID; HEXURONIC ACIDS; HYDROGELS; PLASMIDS; SEPHAROSE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 80055111976     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: 18785905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2011.09.069     Document Type: Article

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