Blue light-mediated transcriptional activation and repression of gene expression in bacteria

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 44, Issue 14, 2016, Pages 6994-7005

  Jayaraman, Premkumar ^a   Devarajan, Kavya ^b   Chua, Tze Kwang ^a   Zhang, Hanzhong ^a   Gunawan, Erry ^b   Poh, Chueh Loo ^a  

^a Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PROMOTER REGION; RADIATION RESPONSE; TIME FACTOR;

REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LIGHT; OPTOGENETICS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84984926987     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw548     Document Type: Article

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