Rapidly Characterizing the Fast Dynamics of RNA Genetic Circuitry with Cell-Free Transcription-Translation (TX-TL) Systems

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 503-515

  Takahashi, Melissa K ^a,b   Chappell, James ^a   Hayes, Clarmyra A ^c   Sun, Zachary Z ^c   Kim, Jongmin ^c   Singhal, Vipul ^b,c   Spring, Kevin J ^b,d   Al Khabouri, Shaima ^b,e   Fall, Christopher P ^b,f,g   Noireaux, Vincent ^h   Murray, Richard M ^b,c   Lucks, Julius B ^a,b  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^c California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

^f University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

^g GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

cell free; response time; RNA genetic circuits; RNA synthetic biology; TX TL

Indexed keywords

RNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL FREE SYSTEM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION TRANSLATION SYSTEM; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84929582121     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sb400206c     Document Type: Article

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