A panel of stress-responsive luminous bacteria for the detection of selected classes of toxicants

Water Research

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 3009-3016

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

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^d SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial stress responses; Bioluminescence; Biosensors; DNA damage; Genotoxicity; Global regulatory circuits; Microtox ; Oxidative stress; Toxicity bioassays

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOASSAY; BIOSENSORS; CHEMILUMINESCENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; TOXICITY;

BIOLUMINESCENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; LUMINOUS BACTERIA;

HAZARDOUS MATERIALS;

PHENOL DERIVATIVE; TOXIC SUBSTANCE; TRIHALOMETHANE;

BACTERIA; CONTAMINANT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENETICALLY ENGINEERED MICROORGANISM; LUMINESCENCE; LUMINOUS ORGANISMS; POLLUTION DETECTION; TOXICITY TEST; TOXICITY TESTS;

ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; BIOSENSOR; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXICITY TESTING;

EID: 0031540096     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0043-1354(97)00169-3     Document Type: Article

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