Toehold switches: De-novo-designed regulators of gene expression

Cell

Volumn 159, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 925-939

  Green, Alexander A ^a   Silver, Pamela A ^a,b   Collins, James J ^a,c   Yin, Peng ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; SENSOR; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TOEHOLD SWITCHES; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; METABOLISM; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; RNA; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84909963314     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: 10974172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.10.002     Document Type: Article

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