Design and Construction of Generalizable RNA-Protein Hybrid Controllers by Level-Matched Genetic Signal Amplification

Cell Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 549-562.e7

  Wang, Yen Hsiang ^a   McKeague, Maureen ^a   Hsu, Tammy M ^a   Smolke, Christina D ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

closed loop feedback; genetic amplifiers; model guided design; RNA controllers; synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GAL4;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROL SYSTEM; ENHANCER REGION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

EID: 85006309698     PISSN: 24054712     EISSN: 24054720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cels.2016.10.008     Document Type: Article

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