Accurate Predictions of Genetic Circuit Behavior from Part Characterization and Modular Composition

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 673-681

  Davidsohn, Noah ^a   Beal, Jacob ^b   Kiani, Samira ^a   Adler, Aaron ^b   Yaman, Fusun ^b   Li, Yinqing ^a   Xie, Zhen ^c   Weiss, Ron ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

genetic circuits; synthetic biology; systems biology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC CIRCUIT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAMMAL CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; DRUG EFFECTS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETICS; HEK293 CELL LINE; METABOLISM; PLASMID; PROCEDURES;

MAMMALIA;

DOXYCYCLINE; PHOTOPROTEIN;

DOXYCYCLINE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84934988158     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sb500263b     Document Type: Article

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