Engineering robust and tunable spatial structures with synthetic gene circuits

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 1005-1014

  Kong, Wentao ^a,b   Blanchard, Andrew E ^a,b   Liao, Chen ^a,b   Lu, Ting ^a,b  

^a United States of America   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NISIN;

ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; IMMUNITY; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; SYNTHETIC GENE CIRCUIT; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; METABOLISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NISIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 85014025090     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw1045     Document Type: Article

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