Synthetic mammalian trigger-controlled bipartite transcription factors

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 13, 2013, Pages

  Folcher, Marc ^a   Xie, Mingqi ^a   Spinnler, Andrea ^a   Fussenegger, Martin ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA BUTYROLACTONE DERIVATIVE; KRUEPPEL ASSOCIATED BOX DOMAIN PROTEIN; PHLORETIN; PROTEIN VP16; TETRACYCLINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SCBR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TETR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TTGR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR VANR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANILLIC ACID; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ACTINOMYCES; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE POLE DOUBLE THROW; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FUSION GENE; GENE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KOX1 GENE; MATRIX ATTACHMENT REGION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENE; VIRUS PARTICLE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEK293 CELLS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS PROTEIN VMW65; HUMANS; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84880550715     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt405     Document Type: Article

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