Rational design of a biosensor circuit with semi-log dose-response function in Escherichia coli

Quantitative Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 209-220

  Zhang, Haoqian ^a   Sheng, Ying ^a   Wu, Qianzhu ^a   Liu, Ao ^a   Lu, Yuheng ^a   Yin, Zhenzhen ^a   Cao, Yuansheng ^a   Zeng, Weiqian ^a   Ouyang, Qi ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

gene circuit design; logarithmically linear sensing; reverse engineering; synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006796267     PISSN: 20954689     EISSN: 20954697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40484-013-0020-4     Document Type: Article

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