Permanent genetic memory with >1-byte capacity

Nature Methods

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1261-1266

  Yang, Lei ^a   Nielsen, Alec A K ^a   Fernandez Rodriguez, Jesus ^a   McClune, Conor J ^b   Laub, Michael T ^b   Lu, Timothy K ^a,c   Voigt, Christopher A ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL DEATH; CELL DIVISION; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SYNTHESIS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC MEMORY; MEMORY CAPACITY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DATABASE; RECOGNITION; REPORTER GENE; STABLE EXPRESSION; BACTERIOPHAGE; BIOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; INTEGRASE; RECOMBINASE;

BACTERIOPHAGES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; INTEGRASES; MEMORY; RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84925225805     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15487105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.3147     Document Type: Article

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