Decoupling Resource-Coupled Gene Expression in Living Cells

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 1596-1604

  Shopera, Tatenda ^a   He, Lian ^a   Oyetunde, Tolutola ^a   Tang, Yinjie J ^a   Moon, Tae Seok ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

biological robustness; negative feedback; protein sequestration; regulatory architecture; resource competition

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL GENE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGICAL FEEDBACK; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENES, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 85027580695     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.7b00119     Document Type: Article

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