Rewiring cell signalling through chimaeric regulatory protein engineering

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1195-1200

  Wang, Baojun ^a,b   Barahona, Mauricio ^a   Buck, Martin ^a   Schumacher, Jörg ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacterial enhancer binding protein; Cell signalling; Chimaeric protein; Protein engineering; Synthetic biology; Two component signalling system

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; WISKOTT ALDRICH SYNDROME PROTEIN;

ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; ADAPTATION; ALLOSTERISM; ARTICLE; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; BACTERIAL CELL; BIOLOGY; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; NONHUMAN; OSMOLARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; REGULATORY DNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; XENOPUS;

BACTERIA; CELL COMMUNICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84884618426     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: 14708752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST20130138     Document Type: Article

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