Blueprints for biosensors: Design, limitations, and applications

Genes

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2018, Pages

  Carpenter, Alexander C ^a,b   Paulsen, Ian T ^a   Williams, Thomas C ^a,b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Analytics; Aptamers; Biosensors; High throughput screening; Metabolic engineering; Molecular diagnostics; Protein switches; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

APTAMER; DRINKING WATER; UREA;

AQUACULTURE; BIOPROCESS; BIOREMEDIATION; DEGRADATION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIRECTED EVOLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; FERMENTATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FOOD INDUSTRY; GARBAGE DEGRADATION; GENE CIRCUIT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HETEROLOGOUS SPECIES TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BASED BIOSENSOR; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MILK; MODULAR TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BASED BIOSENSOR; MODULAR TRANSCRIPTION INDEPENDENT PROTEIN BASED BIOSENSOR; NATIVE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BASED BIOSENSOR; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASED BIOSENSOR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RIBOSWITCH; SEMI MODULAR TRANSCRIPTION INDEPENDENT PROTEIN BASED BIOSENSOR; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INDEPENDENT PROTEIN BASED BIOSENSOR;

EID: 85050813835     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/genes9080375     Document Type: Review

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