Modular, Multi-Input Transcriptional Logic Gating with Orthogonal LacI/GalR Family Chimeras

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 645-651

  Shis, David L ^a   Hussain, Faiza ^a   Meinhardt, Sarah ^b,c   Swint Kruse, Liskin ^b   Bennett, Matthew R ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Saint Luke's Health System Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRUCTOSE; FUCOSE; RIBOSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; GALACTOSE REPRESSOR PROTEINS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; ISOPROPYL THIOGALACTOSIDE; LAC REPRESSOR; LACI PROTEIN, E COLI; LIGAND; PHOTOPROTEIN; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHIMERA; DNA BINDING; GENE EXPRESSION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; LIGAND BINDING; OPERATOR GENE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPRESSOR GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DRUG EFFECTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

PROKARYOTA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; ISOPROPYL THIOGALACTOSIDE; LAC REPRESSORS; LIGANDS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84927591028     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sb500262f     Document Type: Article

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