Harnessing a previously unidentified capability of bacterial allosteric transcription factors for sensing diverse small molecules in vitro

Science Advances

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2018, Pages

  Cao, Jiaqian ^a   Yao, Yongpeng ^a   Fan, Keqiang ^a   Tan, Gaoyi ^b   Xiang, Wensheng ^c   Xia, Xuekui ^d   Li, Shanshan ^c   Wang, Weishan ^a   Zhang, Lixin ^a,b,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^d QILU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^e QINGDAO NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING SITES; BIOSENSORS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

4-HYDROXYBENZOIC ACIDS; BIOSENSING APPLICATIONS; DISEASE MARKERS; DNA BINDING SITE; DNA DETECTION; LIFE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION SYSTEM; SMALL MOLECULES;

DNA;

4 HYDROXYBENZOIC ACID ESTER; 4-HYDROXYBENZOIC ACID; DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; URIC ACID;

BACTERIUM; BINDING SITE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA; BINDING SITES; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; DNA; HUMANS; IN VITRO TECHNIQUES; PARABENS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; URIC ACID;

EID: 85057550401     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aau4602     Document Type: Article

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