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Andrés Aranda-Díaz1,2, Kieran Mace1,2, Ignacio Zuleta1,2
1Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco , San Francisco, California 94158, United States.
Abstract:
Cellular phenotypes are the result of complex interactions between many components. Understanding and predicting the system level properties of the resulting networks requires the development of perturbation tools that can simultaneously and independently modulate multiple cellular variables. Here, we develop synthetic modules that use different arrangements of two transcriptional regulators to achieve either concurrent and independent control of the expression of two genes, or decoupled control of the mean and variance of a single gene. These modules constitute powerful tools to probe the quantitative attributes of network wiring and function.
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