Engineered Photoactivatable Genetic Switches Based on the Bacterium Phage T7 RNA Polymerase

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 357-366

  Han, Tiyun ^a   Chen, Quan ^a   Liu, Haiyan ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c HEFEI INSTITUTES OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE   (China)

Author keywords

allosteric control; genetic switch; light regulated protein protein interaction; modular domain organization; split T7 RNA polymerase

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE; BACTERIOPHAGE T7 RNA POLYMERASE; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; VIRAL PROTEIN;

ALLOSTERISM; ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE T7; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SWITCHING; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PHOTOACTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; DARKNESS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; LIGHT;

BACTERIOPHAGE T7; DARKNESS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LIGHT; PROTEIN DOMAINS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 85013422772     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.6b00248     Document Type: Article

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