Antagonistic control of a dual-input mammalian gene switch by food additives

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 14, 2014, Pages

  Xie, Mingqi ^a   Ye, Haifeng ^a,d   Charpin El Hamri, Ghislaine ^b   Fussenegger, Martin ^a,c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Institut Universitaire de Technologie   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGINATE POLYLYSINE ALGINATE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE PLACENTA ISOENZYME; BENZOIC ACID; FOOD ADDITIVE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CTA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANILLIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CELL ENCAPSULATION; CELL ENGINEERING; COMAMONAS TESTOSTERONI; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DUAL INPUT MAMMALIAN GENE SWITCH; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GENE INDUCTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAMMAL CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENICS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BENZOIC ACID; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; FOOD ADDITIVES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENE SILENCING; HEK293 CELLS; HELA CELLS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS PROTEIN VMW65; HUMANS; MICE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; TRANSGENES; VANILLIC ACID;

EID: 84906250209     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku545     Document Type: Article

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