Amplification of small molecule-inducible gene expression via tuning of intracellular receptor densities

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1955-1964

  Wang, Baojun ^a   Barahona, Mauricio ^b   Buck, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSR PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TETR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LUXR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CULTURE MEDIUM; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; LIGAND BINDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RECEPTOR DENSITY; SENSOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID;

PROKARYOTA;

BASE SEQUENCE; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; PLASMIDS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84936772965     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku1388     Document Type: Article

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