Genome Engineering in Cyanobacteria: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1186-1196

  Ramey, C Josh ^a   Barón Sola, Ángel ^a   Aucoin, Hanna R ^a   Boyle, Nanette R ^a  

^a Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM; BINDING SITE; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; CYANOBACTERIUM; CYTOLOGY; DNA LIBRARY; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENOME ENGINEERING; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; RIBOSOME BINDING SITE; RNA PROCESSING; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TERMINATOR SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL GENOME; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS;

CYANOBACTERIA; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84947983632     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.5b00043     Document Type: Review

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