A quantitative framework for the forward design of synthetic miRNA circuits

Nature Methods

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1147-1153

  Bloom, Ryan J ^a   Winkler, Sally M ^a   Smolke, Christina D ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; CELL PROTEIN; DOXYCYCLINE; MICRORNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; ENZYMATIC DEGRADATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HEK293 CELL LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAMMAL CELL; MICHAELIS MENTEN KINETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; STEADY STATE; WESTERN BLOTTING; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; ANIMAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; LEVIVIRUS; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; LEVIVIRUS; MICRORNAS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

EID: 84908563621     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15487105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.3100     Document Type: Article

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