Assembly of MreB filaments on liposome membranes: A synthetic biology approach

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 53-59

  Maeda, Yusuke T ^a   Nakadai, Tomoyoshi ^a   Shin, Jonghyeon ^a   Uryu, Kunihiro ^b   Noireaux, Vincent ^b   Libchaber, Albert ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial cells; Bacterial cytoskeleton MreB; Cell free gene expression; Vesicle bioreactor

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LIPOSOME; MREB PROTEIN; PROTEIN MREC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; GENE EXPRESSION; LIPID MEMBRANE; LIPID VESICLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOSKELETON; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; LIPOSOMES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84859579073     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sb200003v     Document Type: Article

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