Synthetic biosensors for precise gene control and real-time monitoring of metabolites

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 7648-7660

  Rogers, Jameson K ^a,b   Guzman, Christopher D ^a   Taylor, Noah D ^a,c   Raman, Srivatsan ^a,c   Anderson, Kelley ^a   Church, George M ^a,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITRIC ACID; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENISTEIN; JOSAMYCIN; LACTIC ACID; MACROLIDE; NARINGENIN; PHLORETIN; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE; PYRUVIC ACID; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; UNSATURATED FATTY ACID; PHOTOPROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOSENSOR; CENTRIFUGATION; CROSS REACTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; STANDARDIZATION; SUPERNATANT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLIC FLUX ANALYSIS; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC FLUX ANALYSIS; MODELS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84941242926     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv616     Document Type: Article

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