Refactoring and optimization of light-switchable Escherichia coli two-component systems

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 820-831

  Schmidl, Sebastian R ^a   Sheth, Ravi U ^a   Wu, Andrew ^a   Tabor, Jeffrey J ^a,b  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteriochrome; Escherichia coli; Optogenetics; Phytochrome; Refactoring; Two component system

Indexed keywords

LIGAND; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; SYNTHETIC DNA; PHYTOCHROME; VISUAL PROTEINS AND PIGMENTS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; LIGHT EXPOSURE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPTOGENETICS; PLASMID; PROCEDURES; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BASE SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPTOGENETICS; PHOTORECEPTORS, MICROBIAL; PHYTOCHROME; PLASMIDS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84912094821     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sb500273n     Document Type: Article

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