Transferring a synthetic gene circuit from yeast to mammalian cells

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Nevozhay, Dmitry ^a,b   Zal, Tomasz ^a   Balázsi, Gábor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b FAR EASTERN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON; SYNTHETIC DNA;

CELL ORGANELLE; GENE EXPRESSION; MAMMAL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PIPELINE; PROTEIN; YEAST;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SYNTHESIS; GENE TARGETING; MAMMAL CELL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MICROORGANISM; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; SYNTHETIC GENE CIRCUIT; YEAST;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, REPORTER; GENES, SYNTHETIC; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MAMMALS; MCF-7 CELLS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNALS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84874619884     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2471     Document Type: Article

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