Nondisruptive detection of activity of catabolic promoters of Pseudomonas putida with an antigenic surface reporter system

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 214-220

  Cebolla, Ángel ^a   Guzmán, Carlos ^b   De Lorenzo, Víctor ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CELL SURFACE; CORONAVIRUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; REPORTER GENE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORONAVIRUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 0030049029     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.1.214-220.1996     Document Type: Article

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