Rapid cell-free forward engineering of novel genetic ring oscillators

eLife

Volumn 4, Issue OCTOBER2015, 2015, Pages

  Niederholtmeyer, Henrike ^a   Sun, Zachary Z ^b   Hori, Yutaka ^c   Yeung, Enoch ^c   Verpoorte, Amanda ^a   Murray, Richard M ^b,c   Maerkl, Sebastian J ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENGINEERING; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATOR; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL FREE SYSTEM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; REPORTER GENE; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

PHOTOPROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

CELL-FREE SYSTEM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENES, REPORTER; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84949895685     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.09771     Document Type: Article

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