Volume 26, No 7, Jul 2016

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
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Volume 26 Issue 7, July 2016: 854-857

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

An extraordinary stringent and sensitive light-switchable gene expression system for bacterial cells

Xianjun Chen^1,2,3, Renmei Liu^1,2, Zhengcai Ma¹, Xiaopei Xu^1,2, Haoqian Zhang⁴, Jianhe Xu¹, Qi Ouyang⁴ and Yi Yang^1,2,3

¹Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology Laboratory, State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center for Biomanufacturing Technology, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Mei Long Road, Shanghai 200237, China
²Optogenetics and Molecular Imaging Interdisciplinary Research Center, CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Mei Long Road, Shanghai 200237, China
³Collaborative Innovation Center of Genetics and Development, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Mei Long Road, Shanghai 200237, China
⁴State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics and School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, China Correspondence: Yi Yang,(yiyang@ecust.edu.cn)

Light-switchable gene expression systems provide transient, non-invasive and reversible means to control biological processes with high tunability and spatiotemporal resolution.

10.1038/cr.2016.74

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