Green fluorescent protein as a visual marker in a p-nitrophenol degrading Moraxella sp.

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 187-193

  Tresse, Odile ^a   Errampalli, Deena ^a   Kostrzynska, Magdalena ^a   Leung, Kam T ^a   Lee, Hung ^a   Trevors, Jack T ^a   Van Elsas, J Dirk ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bioremediation; Green fluorescent protein; Marker gene; Moraxella sp.; p Nitrophenol

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; BIODEGRADATION; MARKER GENE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MORAXELLA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL TREATMENT;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; GENETIC MARKERS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MORAXELLA; NITROPHENOLS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MORAXELLA SP.; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032124924     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00170-0     Document Type: Article

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