A load driver device for engineering modularity in biological networks

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1268-1275

  Mishra, Deepak ^a   Rivera, Phillip M ^a   Lin, Allen ^a   Del Vecchio, Domitilla ^a   Weiss, Ron ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING SITES; COMPLEX NETWORKS; RESTORATION; YEAST;

BIOLOGICAL NETWORKS; CIRCUIT FUNCTIONS; CIRCUIT PERFORMANCE; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; FUNDAMENTAL BUILDING BLOCKS; REGULATORY PROTEIN; TIME SCALE SEPARATION; TIME VARYING INPUT;

TIME VARYING NETWORKS;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BINDING SITE; BIOENGINEERING; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STEADY STATE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

BINDING SITES; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84920260857     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt.3044     Document Type: Article

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