Strategy Revealing Phenotypic Differences among Synthetic Oscillator Designs

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 686-701

  Lomnitz, Jason G ^a   Savageau, Michael A ^a,b  

^a University of California Davis   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

circuit architecture; dynamic phenotypes; mathematically controlled comparison; mode of transcription control; system design space

Indexed keywords

SYNTHETIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; IN VIVO STUDY; MASS ACTION; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATOR; OSCILLATORY POTENTIAL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; STEADY STATE; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; ALGORITHM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; KINETICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHENOTYPE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84922434804     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sb500236e     Document Type: Article

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