Modular construction of mammalian gene circuits using TALE transcriptional repressors

Nature Chemical Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 207-213

  Li, Yinqing ^a   Jiang, Yun ^b   Chen, He ^b   Liao, Weixi ^b   Li, Zhihua ^c   Weiss, Ron ^a,d   Xie, Zhen ^b  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL BIOLOGY   (China)

^d USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; MESSENGER RNA; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HEK293 CELL LINE; HELA CELL LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAMMAL CELL; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPRESSOR GENE; STEREOSPECIFICITY; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION ACTIVATOR LIKE EFFECTOR REPRESSOR; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN ENGINEERING;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HEK293 CELLS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SMALL MOLECULE LIBRARIES; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84925534393     PISSN: 15524450     EISSN: 15524469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.1736     Document Type: Article

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