Reverse engineering validation using a benchmark synthetic gene circuit in human cells

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 255-262

  Kang, Taek ^a,b   White, Jacob T ^a,b   Xie, Zhen ^c   Benenson, Yaakov ^d   Sontag, Eduardo ^e   Bleris, Leonidas ^a,b  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

benchmark synthetic circuits; human cells; modular response analysis; reverse engineering

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; RNA; SYNTHETIC DNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CELL ENGINEERING; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KIDNEY CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

BENCHMARKING; CELLS, CULTURED; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; KIDNEY; METABOLOME; MODELS, GENETIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84878057893     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sb300093y     Document Type: Article

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