Synthetic biological approaches to optogenetically control cell signaling

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 47, Issue , 2017, Pages 112-119

  Kolar, Katja ^a   Weber, Wilfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE THERAPY; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

BIOLOGICAL APPROACH; BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; CELLULAR PROCESS; DRUG CANDIDATES; LIFE-SCIENCES; OPTOGENETICS; SUBCELLULAR LOCALIZATIONS; TEMPORAL CONTROLS;

CELL SIGNALING;

AMPA RECEPTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 4; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RAS PROTEIN; PROTEIN;

CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL FUNCTION; CYTOLOGY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EDITING; GENE SWITCHING; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; OPTOGENETICS; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; CELLS; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

CELLS; HUMANS; LIGHT; OPTOGENETICS; PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 85023621202     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: 18790429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2017.06.010     Document Type: Review

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