Multilayered genetic safeguards limit growth of microorganisms to defined environments

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1945-1954

  Gallagher, Ryan R ^a   Patel, Jaymin R ^a   Interiano, Alexander L ^a   Rovner, Alexis J ^a   Isaacs, Farren J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEASE; CULTURE MEDIUM;

ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; BIOSAFETY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENGINEERED ADDICTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GROWTH REGULATION; MICROBIAL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPRESSOR SUPPLEMENTATION; RIBOREGULATION; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; COCULTURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR CLONING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84922664743     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku1378     Document Type: Article

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