Scaffold-fused riboregulators for enhanced gene activation in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

MicrobiologyOpen

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 533-540

  Sakai, Yuta ^a,b   Abe, Koichi ^a,b   Nakashima, Saki ^a,b   Ellinger, James J ^a,b   Ferri, Stefano ^a,b   Sode, Koji ^a,b   Ikebukuro, Kazunori ^a,b  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hfq; Posttranscriptional gene regulation; Riboregulator; Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; MOLECULAR SCAFFOLD; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATOR GENE; RIBOREGULATOR; SYNECHOCYSTIS; GENE TARGETING; GENETICS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

CYANOBACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP.; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP. PCC 6803;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE TARGETING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; SYNECHOCYSTIS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84938994791     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20458827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mbo3.257     Document Type: Article

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