The development and characterization of synthetic minimal yeast promoters

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Redden, Heidi ^a   Alper, Hal S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMOLOGY; SIZE; YEAST;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE AND NUCLEIC ACID PARAMETERS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; UPSTREAM ACTIVATING SEQUENCE ELEMENT; YEAST; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCEDURES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; WORKFLOW;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

FUNGAL DNA; SYNTHETIC DNA;

DNA, FUNGAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, SYNTHETIC; GENETIC ENGINEERING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; WORKFLOW;

EID: 84937604735     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8810     Document Type: Article

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