Engineering modular and tunable genetic amplifiers for scaling transcriptional signals in cascaded gene networks

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 9484-9492

  Wang, Baojun ^a,b   Barahona, Mauricio ^b   Buck, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HRPR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HRPS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL FUNCTION; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC MANIPULATION; HYDROLYSIS; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TUNABLE GAIN AMPLIFIER;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84906268034     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku593     Document Type: Article

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