Engineering the luxCDABE genes from Photorhabdus luminescens to provide a bioluminescent reporter for constitutive and promoter probe plasmids and mini-Tn5 constructs

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 163, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 193-202

  Winson, Michael K ^a,b   Swift, Simon ^a,b   Hill, Philip J ^a   Sims, Catriona M ^b   Griesmayr, Gottfried ^c   Bycroft, Barrie W ^b   Williams, Paul ^b   Stewart, Gordon S A B ^a  

^a Food Microbiology Section   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c Jakob Haringerstrasse 8   (Austria)

Author keywords

Luminometry; LuxCDABE; Mini Tn5; Photometry; Promoter probe; Quorum sensing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHOTOMETRY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SENSOR; TRANSPOSON;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; OPERON; PHOTOMETRY; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RESTRICTION MAPPING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

NEGIBACTERIA; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS;

EID: 0032526404     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00173-6     Document Type: Article

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