Insulated transcriptional elements enable precise design of genetic circuits

Nature Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Zong, Yeqing ^a,b   Zhang, Haoqian M ^c   Lyu, Cheng ^c   Ji, Xiangyu ^a,b   Hou, Junran ^a,b   Guo, Xian ^a,b   Ouyang, Qi ^c   Lou, Chunbo ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PRECISION; PROKARYOTE; RESOLUTION; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

DNA TRANSCRIPTION; ERROR; PHYSICAL MODEL; PROMOTER REGION; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; WORKFLOW; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; INSULATOR ELEMENT; PLASMID;

PROKARYOTA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; INSULATOR ELEMENTS; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 85021709041     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00063-z     Document Type: Article

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