Programming mRNA decay to modulate synthetic circuit resource allocation

Nature Communications

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Venturelli, Ophelia S ^a,b   Tei, Mika ^a,b   Bauer, Stefan ^c   Chan, Leanne Jade G ^d   Petzold, Christopher J ^d   Arkin, Adam P ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California at Berkeley   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCONIC ACID; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE DEHYDROGENASE; MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEASE; RIBONUCLEASE MAZF; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; MAZF PROTEIN, E COLI;

AMINO ACID; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; HOST; METABOLITE; MODEL; PROTEOMICS; RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BINDING SITE; CELL DEATH; CELL GROWTH; DEGRADATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; METABOLITE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEOMICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; GENETICS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL FEEDBACK; PROCEDURES; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; RNA STABILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROTEOMICS; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 85025138993     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15128     Document Type: Article

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