Engineered temperature compensation in a synthetic genetic clock

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 972-977

  Hussain, Faiza ^a   Gupta, Chinmaya ^b   Hirning, Andrew J ^a   Ott, William ^b   Matthews, Kathleen S ^a   Josic, Krešimir ^b   Bennett, Matthew R ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular dynamics; Circadian oscillator; Delay; Laci; Microfluidics

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; SYNTHETIC DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION;

CELLULAR DYNAMICS; CIRCADIAN OSCILLATOR; DELAY; LACI; MICROFLUIDICS;

CIRCADIAN CLOCKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; ISOPROPYL THIOGALACTOSIDE; LAC REPRESSORS; MICROFLUIDICS; MUTATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEINS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84892904589     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1316298111     Document Type: Article

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