Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

Jungle Express is a versatile repressor system for tight transcriptional control

  • Thomas L. Ruegg,
  • Jose H. Pereira,
  • Joseph C. Chen,
  • Andy DeGiovanni,
  • Pavel Novichkov,
  • Vivek K. Mutalik,
  • Giovani P. Tomaleri,
  • Steven W. Singer,
  • Nathan J. Hillson,
  • Blake A. Simmons,
  • Paul D. Adams,
  • Michael P. Thelen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05857-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Tightly regulated promoters with strong inducibility and scalability are highly desirable for biological applications. Here the authors describe ‘Jungle Express’, a EilR repressor-based broad host system activated by cationic dyes.