Synthetic Tunable Amplifying Buffer Circuit in E. coli

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 577-584

  Nilgiriwala, Kayzad Soli ^a   Jiménez, José ^a,b   Rivera, Phillip Michael ^a   Del Vecchio, Domitilla ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUFFER; NITROGEN REGULATOR II KINASE; PHOSPHATASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; GLNL PROTEIN, E COLI; MULTIENZYME COMPLEX; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN KINASE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONCENTRATION AT STEADY-STATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DOSE RESPONSE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; GENETICS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROCEDURES;

BINDING SITES; BUFFERS; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASES; PHOSPHORIC MONOESTER HYDROLASES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN KINASES; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84929580603     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sb5002533     Document Type: Article

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