%0 Journal Article %T Mapping the operational landscape of microRNAs in synthetic gene circuits %A James Lee %A Kristina Ehrhardt %A Lan Ma %A Leonidas Bleris %A Srijaa Kannan %A Tyler Quarton %A Yi Li %J Archive of "NPJ Systems Biology and Applications". %D 2018 %R 10.1038/s41540-017-0043-y %X Circuit architecture and function. a Biological schematic of the miRNA repression circuit. The CFP fluorescent protein is constitutively produced and is used to quantify the plasmid copy number. The synthetic miRNA-FF4 is produced in response to Dox and is quantified by mKate2 fluorescence. The miRNA-FF4 represses the mRNA of the output fluorescent protein, YFP. b Functional graph representation of the circuit. Each observed fluorescent quantity is assumed to be a function of the underlying activity of the circuit elements. c Visual representation of function-dependent output space of circuit. The green and red surfaces represent the expected output space of the circuit in the absence and presence of miRNA regulation, respectivel %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5765153/