Synthetic transcription amplifier system for orthogonal control of gene expression in saccharomyces cerevisiae

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Rantasalo, Anssi ^a   Czeizler, Elena ^b   Virtanen, Riitta ^a   Rousu, Juho ^b   Lähdesmäki, Harri ^b   Penttilä, Merja ^a   Jäntti, Jussi ^a   Mojzita, Dominik ^a  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEXA PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING MOTIF; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SYNTHETIC TRANSCRIPTION AMPLIFIER SYSTEM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; GENETICS; PROCEDURES; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84960977369     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0148320     Document Type: Article

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