Approaches to chemical synthetic biology

FEBS Letters

Volumn 586, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 2138-2145

  Chiarabelli, Cristiano ^a   Stano, Pasquale ^a   Anella, Fabrizio ^a   Carrara, Paolo ^a   Luisi, Pier Luigi ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Lipid vesicle; Minimal Cell; Protein folding; Random sequence; RNA stability

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; ALPHA HEMOLYSIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; BIOPOLYMER; DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; Q BETA REPLICASE; RIBOZYME; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTIFICIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CATALYSIS; EVOLUTION; LIPID VESICLE; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

BIOGENESIS; BIOPOLYMERS; CELLS; CHEMISTRY; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84863633733     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: 18733468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2012.01.014     Document Type: Review

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