Regulatable and Modulable Background Expression Control in Prokaryotic Synthetic Circuits by Auxiliary Repressor Binding Sites

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 36-45

  Merulla, Davide ^a   Van Der Meer, Jan Roelof ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

arsenic; ArsR; bacterial bioreporters; operator; repressor protein; synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

ARSENITE RESPONSIVE REPRESSOR PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; ARSENOUS ACID DERIVATIVE; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OPERATOR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STOICHIOMETRY; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROKARYOTIC CELL;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ARSENITES; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; OPERATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84954304557     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.5b00111     Document Type: Article

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