Construction of a bioluminescent reporter strain to detect polychlorinated biphenyls

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 5023-5026

  Layton, A C ^a   Muccini, M ^a   Ghosh, M M ^b   Sayler, G S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b University of Tennessee   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROCLOR 1242; BENZOIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; NONIONIC SURFACTANT; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; BACTERIUM; BIOLUMINESCENCE; GENE INDUCTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; REPORTER GENE; SOLUBILITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RALSTONIA; RALSTONIA EUTROPHA; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

EID: 0031736057     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.12.5023-5026.1998     Document Type: Article

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