Tunable promoters in synthetic and systems biology

Subcellular Biochemistry

Volumn 64, Issue , 2012, Pages 181-201

  Dehli, Tore ^a   Solem, Christian ^a   Jensen, Peter Ruhdal ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Metabolic engineering; Orthogonality and modularity; Standardization; Synthetic and systems biology; Synthetic gene networks; Synthetic promoter libraries

Indexed keywords

SYNTHETIC DNA;

BACTERIUM; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TRANSGENE;

BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FUNGI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, SYNTHETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84875683990     PISSN: 03060225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-5055-5_9     Document Type: Article

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