Gene circuit performance characterization and resource usage in a cell-free "breadboard"

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 416-425

  Siegal Gaskins, Dan ^a   Tuza, Zoltan A ^b   Kim, Jongmin ^a   Noireaux, Vincent ^c   Murray, Richard M ^a,d  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b PÁZMÁNY PÉTER CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c University of Minnesota   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

biological circuit prototyping; cell free systems; crosstalk; in vitro synthetic biology; RNA aptamer

Indexed keywords

DNA; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATE; RNA POLYMERASE; APTAMER; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; SYNTHETIC DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL FREE SYSTEM; COST CONTROL; DNA TEMPLATE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; RIBOSOME; RNA TRANSLATION; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; CELL-FREE SYSTEM; DNA; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENES, REPORTER; GENES, SYNTHETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RIBOSOMES; RNA, MESSENGER; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84903211692     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sb400203p     Document Type: Article

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