Multiphase water-in-oil emulsion droplets for cell-free transcription-translation

Langmuir

Volumn 30, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 5695-5699

  Torre, Paola ^a   Keating, Christine D ^b   Mansy, Sheref S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODIES; DEXTRAN; MACHINERY; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; TRANSCRIPTION;

AQUEOUS TWO PHASE; AQUEOUS TWO PHASE SYSTEM; ARTIFICIAL CELL; CELL-FREE EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; THREE PHASE SYSTEM; WATER DROPLETS; WATER IN OIL EMULSIONS;

EMULSIONS;

DEXTRAN; FICOLL; MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; OIL; WATER;

CELL FREE SYSTEM; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

CELL-FREE SYSTEM; DEXTRANS; FICOLL; OILS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; WATER;

EID: 84901410517     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la404146g     Document Type: Article

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