Chromatin regulation at the frontier of synthetic biology

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 159-171

  Keung, Albert J ^a,b   Joung, J Keith ^c,d   Khalil, Ahmad S ^a,e   Collins, James J ^b,e,f  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOCHROME 2; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GENOMIC DNA; GLOBIN; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; HISTONE; LYSINE; RAPAMYCIN; RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTION ACTIVATOR LIKE EFFECTOR NUCLEASE; UNTRANSLATED RNA; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN; CHROMATIN;

ACETYLATION; BACTERIA; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PLANT; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGULATOR GENE; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YEAST; ANIMAL; CELL ENGINEERING; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; CELL ENGINEERING; CHROMATIN; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENOME; HISTONES; HUMANS; PLANTS; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 84923642913     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3900     Document Type: Review

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