Resource Competition Shapes the Response of Genetic Circuits

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 1263-1272

  Qian, Yili ^a   Huang, Hsin Ho ^a   Jiménez, José I ^a,b   Del Vecchio, Domitilla ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

activation cascade; context dependence; genetic circuit; model guided design; modularity; resource competition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC RESOURCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

BINDING SITES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 85025172539     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.6b00361     Document Type: Article

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