Visualization of evolutionary stability dynamics and competitive fitness of Escherichia coli engineered with randomized multigene circuits

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 519-528

  Sleight, Sean C ^a   Sauro, Herbert M ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

BioBricks; evolution; evolutionary stability; genetic circuits; synthetic biology; visualization

Indexed keywords

CYAN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COLOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RIBOSOME;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC FITNESS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RIBOSOMES; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84884611067     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sb400055h     Document Type: Article

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