Bacterial sigma factors as targets for engineered or synthetic transcriptional control

Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology

Volumn 2, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Tripathi, Lakshmi ^a   Zhang, Yan ^a   Lin, Zhanglin ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bacterial stress tolerance; Extremophile; Sigma factor; Strain engineering; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; DNA SEQUENCES;

BACTERIAL STRESS; EXTREMOPHILES; SIGMA FACTOR; STRAIN ENGINEERING; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

NUCLEIC ACIDS;

EID: 85013688889     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22964185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2014.00033     Document Type: Short Survey

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