Advances and current limitations in transcript-level control of gene expression

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 34, Issue , 2015, Pages 98-104

  Leavitt, John M ^a   Alper, Hal S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); TRANSCRIPTION;

CONTROL OF GENE EXPRESSION; EXPRESSION CASSETTE; EXPRESSION CONTROLS; INCREASE PRODUCTIONS; METABOLIC PATHWAYS; SYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL CONTROL; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ENGINEERINGS;

GENE EXPRESSION;

GALACTOSE; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CTCF; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; BINDING SITE; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CASSETTE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; KOMAGATAELLA PASTORIS; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TRANSLATION INITIATION; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM;

EUKARYOTA;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84920278608     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: 18790429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2014.12.015     Document Type: Review

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