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Building a better stop sign: understanding the signals that terminate transcription

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A synthetic biology terminator toolkit enables more sophisticated circuit design and gives insight into the mechanism of transcriptional termination.

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  1. Rachel Anne Mooney and Robert Landick are in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.,

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  2. Robert Landick is in the Department of Bacteriology and at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.,

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