Ultrasensitive Scaffold-Dependent Protease Sensors with Large Dynamic Range

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 1337-1342

  Stein, Viktor ^a,b   Nabi, Masuda ^a   Alexandrov, Kirill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

molecular diagnostics; proteases; protein engineering; protein switches; synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROTEIN; PROTEINASE; THROMBIN; PEPTIDE HYDROLASE;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BIOSENSOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TARGETING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

PATHOLOGY, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEINS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 85025125113     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.6b00370     Document Type: Article

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