Genetic circuit characterization and debugging using RNA-seq

Molecular Systems Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2017, Pages

  Gorochowski, Thomas E ^a   Espah Borujeni, Amin ^a   Park, Yongjin ^a   Nielsen, Alec AK ^a   Zhang, Jing ^a   Der, Bryan S ^a   Gordon, D Benjamin ^a,b   Voigt, Christopher A ^a,b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

Author keywords

biofab; combinatorial logic; omics; synthetic biology; systems biology

Indexed keywords

ANHYDROTETRACYCLINE; ARABINOSE; ISOPROPYL THIOGALACTOSIDE; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA POLYMERASE; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; AMTR PROTEIN, CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BM3R1 PROTEIN, BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; PHLF PROTEIN, PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CIRCUIT; INSULATOR ELEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR GENETIC PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; NUCLEIC ACID PROBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SIMULATION; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LIBRARY; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PLASMID; PROCEDURES; REGULATOR GENE; TRANSGENE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LIBRARY; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; INSULATOR ELEMENTS; ISOPROPYL THIOGALACTOSIDE; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TERMINATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

EID: 85035147591     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17444292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15252/msb.20167461     Document Type: Article

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