Biosensors for metabolic engineering

Systems Biology Application in Synthetic Biology

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 53-70

  Yan, Qiang ^a   Fong, Stephen S ^a,b  

^a Virginia Commonwealth University   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biosensor; Computational design; Directed evolution; Metabolic engineering; Riboswitch; Ribozyme; Synthetic biology; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

EID: 85032297089     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-2809-7_5     Document Type: Chapter

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