Engineering a portable riboswitch-LacP hybrid device for two-way gene regulation

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 19, 2011, Pages

  Jin, Ye ^a   Huang, Jian Dong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CSRB PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; ISOPROPYL THIOGALACTOSIDE; LACI PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA; SIGMA FACTOR RPOS; THEOPHYLLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA; ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CSRB RNA, E COLI; LAC REPRESSOR; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGMA FACTOR KATF PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

ACETATE ASSIMILATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BINDING SITE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LACI GENE; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE; RIBOSWITCH; RIBOSWITCH LACP HYBRID DEVICE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; BIOFILM; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; RIBOSOME;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ACETATES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BIOFILMS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LAC REPRESSORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RIBOSOMES; RIBOSWITCH; RNA; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SIGMA FACTOR;

EID: 80455168324     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr609     Document Type: Article

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