Engineering of transcriptional regulators enhances microbial stress tolerance

Biotechnology Advances

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 986-991

  Lin, Zhanglin ^a   Zhang, Yan ^a   Wang, Jianqing ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Artificial regulator; Global regulator; Regulator engineering; Regulators; Sigma factor; Stress tolerance; Synthetic biology; Zinc finger

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL REGULATOR; GLOBAL REGULATORS; SIGMA FACTOR; STRESS TOLERANCE; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; ZINC FINGER;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; ELECTRIC CURRENT REGULATORS;

TRANSCRIPTION;

GENE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; STRESS ANALYSIS; ZINC;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTIFICIAL REGULATOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GLOBAL REGULATOR; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; REGULATOR ENGINEERING; REGULATORS; REVIEW; STRESS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; ZINC FINGER;

ARTIFICIAL REGULATOR; GLOBAL REGULATOR; REGULATOR ENGINEERING; REGULATORS; SIGMA FACTOR; STRESS TOLERANCE; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; ZINC FINGER;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84882565642     PISSN: 07349750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2013.02.010     Document Type: Review

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