MicroRNA-based single-gene circuits buffer protein synthesis rates against perturbations

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 324-331

  Strovas, Timothy J ^a   Rosenberg, Alexander B ^a   Kuypers, Brianna E ^a   Muscat, Richard A ^a   Seelig, Georg ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptation; feed forward loop; microRNA; noise

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; PHOTOPROTEIN; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRON; MOUSE; NOISE REDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSGENICS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL LINE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICRORNAS; MODELS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84900873500     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sb4001867     Document Type: Article

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