Oxidative stress detection with Escherichia coli harboring a katG'::lux fusion

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 2252-2256

  Belkin, Shimshon ^a,b   Smulski, Dana R ^b   Vollmer, Amy C ^a,c   Van Dyk, Tina K ^b   Larossa, Robert A ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^c SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUSION; LUMINESCENCE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

EID: 0029901873     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.7.2252-2256.1996     Document Type: Article

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