Tunable Riboregulator Switches for Post-transcriptional Control of Gene Expression

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1326-1334

  Krishnamurthy, Malathy ^a   Hennelly, Scott P ^b   Dale, Taraka ^a   Starkenburg, Shawn R ^a   Martí Arbona, Ricardo ^a   Fox, David T ^a   Twary, Scott N ^a   Sanbonmatsu, Karissa Y ^b   Unkefer, Clifford J ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

gene expression; pathway engineering; riboregulators; synthetic biology; translational control

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; BACTERIAL RNA; RIBOSWITCH;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RIBOREGULATOR; RIBOSWITCH; CONFORMATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSWITCH; RNA, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84952683492     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.5b00041     Document Type: Article

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