A sensing array of radically coupled genetic 'biopixels'

Nature

Volumn 481, Issue 7379, 2012, Pages 39-44

  Prindle, Arthur ^a   Samayoa, Phillip ^b   Razinkov, Ivan ^a   Danino, Tal ^a   Tsimring, Lev S ^c   Hasty, Jeff ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; CATALASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HEAVY METAL; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

BACTERIUM; BEHAVIOR; COLONY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HEAVY METAL; PATHOGEN; PIXEL; SENSOR;

ARTICLE; BIOSENSOR; COMPUTER MODEL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GAS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; LIQUID CRYSTAL; LUXR GENE; MICROFLUIDICS; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYSICAL PHASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; QUORUM SENSING; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

AMPICILLIN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARSENIC; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; CATALASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; KANAMYCIN; LIQUID CRYSTALS; NADH DEHYDROGENASE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; QUORUM SENSING; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; THIOUREA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84855440933     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10722     Document Type: Article

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