A portable expression resource for engineering cross-species genetic circuits and pathways

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Kushwaha, Manish ^a   Salis, Howard M ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOTOXICITY; METABOLISM; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST RANGE; INVERTED REPEAT; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SPECIES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84937604736     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8832     Document Type: Article

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