Accurate, Model-Based Tuning of Synthetic Gene Expression Using Introns in S. cerevisiae

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Yofe, Ido ^a   Zafrir, Zohar ^b   Blau, Rachel ^a   Schuldiner, Maya ^a   Tuller, Tamir ^b   Shapiro, Ehud ^a   Ben Yehezkel, Tuval ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRON; NONHUMAN; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STATISTICAL MODEL; YEAST; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PHOTOPROTEIN; SYNTHETIC DNA; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, SYNTHETIC; GENETIC ENGINEERING; INTRONS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84903458941     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004407     Document Type: Article

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