Sort-Seq Approach to Engineering a Formaldehyde-Inducible Promoter for Dynamically Regulated Escherichia coli Growth on Methanol

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 1584-1595

  Rohlhill, Julia ^a   Sandoval, Nicholas R ^b   Papoutsakis, Eleftherios T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b Tulane University   (United States)

Author keywords

biosensor; promoter engineering; sort seq; transcription factor binding; transcriptional fine tuning

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; FORMALDEHYDE; METHANOL;

ALGORITHM; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ALGORITHMS; CELL PROLIFERATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FORMALDEHYDE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METHANOL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 85027549431     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.7b00114     Document Type: Article

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