De novo automated design of small RNA circuits for engineering synthetic riboregulation in living cells

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 38, 2012, Pages 15271-15276

  Rodrigo, Guillermo ^a,b   Landrain, Thomas E ^a   Jaramillo, Alfonso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ D EVRY VAL D ESSONNE   (France)

^b Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación   (Spain)

Author keywords

Computational RNA design; Evolutionary computation; Post transcriptional regulation; RNA synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BIOENGINEERING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOREGULATION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AUTOMATION; CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; THERMODYNAMICS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84866559567     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1203831109     Document Type: Article

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