Multilevel Regulation and Translational Switches in Synthetic Biology

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 485-496

  Kopniczky, Margarita B ^a   Moore, Simon J ^a   Freemont, Paul S ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomedical engineering; circuit design; logic devices; protein; ribonucleic acid (RNA); riboswitch; synthetic biology; translation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; GENE THERAPY; LOGIC DEVICES; MAMMALS; MEDICINE; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PROTEINS; RNA; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

CIRCUIT DESIGNS; GENETIC CIRCUITS; POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATIONS; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RIBOSWITCHES; SMALL MOLECULES; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE;

ANIMAL; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; GENETIC THERAPY; HUMANS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84942750062     PISSN: 19324545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2015.2451707     Document Type: Review

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