Ribozyme-based insulator parts buffer synthetic circuits from genetic context

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1137-1142

  Lou, Chunbo ^a   Stanton, Brynne ^a   Chen, Ying Ja ^b   Munsky, Brian ^b   Voigt, Christopher A ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR NONLINEAR STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT EFFECTS; GENETIC PROGRAMS; INPUT-OUTPUT; RIBOZYMES; SYNTHETIC GENES; TEMPORAL CONTROLS; UNTRANSLATED REGIONS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

BUFFER; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOZYME;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INSULATOR ELEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCREENING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; MODELS, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, CATALYTIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84869476328     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt.2401     Document Type: Article

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