Tuning gene expression with synthetic upstream open reading frames

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

Volumn 110, Issue 28, 2013, Pages 11284-11289

  Ferreira, Joshua P ^a   Overton, K Wesley ^a   Wang, Clifford L ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Eukaryotic translation; Kozak consensus sequence; p21; Synthetic biology; Translation initiation site

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; RNA SEQUENCE; SYNTHESIS; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

EUKARYOTIC TRANSLATION; KOZAK CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; P21; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TRANSLATION INITIATION SITE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; OPEN READING FRAMES;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84879984918     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1305590110     Document Type: Article

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