Design of synthetic yeast promoters via tuning of nucleosome architecture

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Curran, Kathleen A ^a   Crook, Nathan C ^a   Karim, Ashty S ^a   Gupta, Akash ^a   Wagman, Allison M ^a   Alper, Hal S ^a,b  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SYNTHETIC DNA; NUCLEOSOME;

GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLASMID; YEAST;

ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TUNING CURVE; YEAST CELL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; NUCLEOSOMES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84901388705     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5002     Document Type: Article

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