Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

Tuning the dynamic range of bacterial promoters regulated by ligand-inducible transcription factors

  • Ye Chen,
  • Joanne M. L. Ho,
  • David L. Shis,
  • Chinmaya Gupta,
  • James Long,
  • Daniel S. Wagner,
  • William Ott,
  • Krešimir Josić,
  • Matthew R. Bennett

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02473-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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For synthetic gene circuits to behave as designed, ligand-inducible promoters should display predictable ON/OFF characteristics. Here the authors design multi-input hybrid promoters to build transcriptional logic gates.