Obtaining a Panel of Cascade Promoter-5′-UTR Complexes in Escherichia coli

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1065-1075

  Zhou, Shenghu ^a   Ding, Renpeng ^a   Chen, Jian ^a,b   Du, Guocheng ^a   Li, Huazhong ^a   Zhou, Jingwen ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

5 UTR; metabolic engineering; promoter engineering; RNA seq; RT qPCR; synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SEQUENCE; STRENGTH; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PROCEDURES; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE LIBRARY; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 85020914347     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.7b00006     Document Type: Article

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