Development and characterization of a whole-cell bioluminescent sensor for bioavailable middle-chain alkanes in contaminated groundwater samples

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 4053-4060

  Sticher, Patrick ^a   Jaspers, Marco C M ^a   Stemmler, Konrad ^a   Harms, Hauke ^a   Zehnder, Alexander J B ^a   Van Der Meer, Jan Roelof ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALICYCLIC COMPOUND; ALKANE DERIVATIVE; AROMATIC COMPOUND; GROUND WATER; OCTANE;

ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOLUMINESCENCE; BIOSENSOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PSEUDOMONAS; VIBRIO HARVEYI; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS OLEOVORANS; VIBRIO HARVEYI;

EID: 0030849481     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.10.4053-4060.1997     Document Type: Article

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