Molecular Buffers Permit Sensitivity Tuning and Inversion of Riboswitch Signals

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 632-638

  Rugbjerg, Peter ^a   Genee, Hans Jasper ^a   Jensen, Kristian ^a   Sarup Lytzen, Kira ^a   Sommer, Morten Otto Alexander ^a  

^a Chalmers University of Technology   (Denmark)

Author keywords

biosensor; riboswitch; signal inversion; signal processing; signal tuning

Indexed keywords

DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; 5-FLUOROOROTIC ACID; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; OROTIC ACID; RIBOSWITCH; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; URA3 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE;

ARTICLE; COLONY FORMATION; DNA BINDING; DNA INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULAR SIGNAL BUFFER; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPRESSOR GENE; RIBOSWITCH; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN DOMAIN; THEORETICAL MODEL;

DNA; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OROTIC ACID; PROTEIN DOMAINS; RIBOSWITCH; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84978476774     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.5b00213     Document Type: Article

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