Advances in genetic circuit design: Novel biochemistries, deep part mining, and precision gene expression

Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 878-892

  Nielsen, Alec AK ^a   Segall Shapiro, Thomas H ^a   Voigt, Christopher A ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUIDE RNA; MESSENGER RNA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA POLYMERASE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AUTOMATION; BASE PAIRING; BIOCHEMISTRY; CROSS REACTION; DATA MINING; DNA BINDING; DNA BINDING MOTIF; DNA DENATURATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOTOXICITY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RNA PROCESSING; START CODON; STOP CODON; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSLATION INITIATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; COMPUTERS, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMANS;

EID: 84890178034     PISSN: 13675931     EISSN: 18790402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2013.10.003     Document Type: Review

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