Tools and Principles for Microbial Gene Circuit Engineering

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 428, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 862-888

  Bradley, Robert W ^a,b   Buck, Martin ^a   Wang, Baojun ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

engineering tools; gene circuit; modularity and orthogonality; synthetic biology; transcriptional and translational control

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; SCAFFOLD PROTEIN; SMALL TRANSCRIPTION ACTIVATING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; DNA BINDING; ENZYME SUBUNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC STABILITY; LIGHT; MICROBIAL GENE; MICROBIAL GENE CIRCUIT ENGINEERING; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RIBOSWITCH; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA SPLICING; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE TARGETING; MICROBIAL GENOME; PROCEDURES; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME, MICROBIAL; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84960798463     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: 10898638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2015.10.004     Document Type: Review

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