Promoter and terminator discovery and engineering

Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology

Volumn 162, Issue , 2018, Pages 21-44

  Deaner, Matthew ^a   Alper, Hal S ^a,b  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Biotechnology; Gene expression; Metabolic engineering; Promoters; Synthetic biology; Terminators

Indexed keywords

DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE;

DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER; TERMINATOR REGIONS, GENETIC;

EID: 85032582544     PISSN: 07246145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/10_2016_8     Document Type: Chapter

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