Fluorescence-based detection of lacZ reporter gene expression in intact and viable bacteria including Mycobacterium species

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 179, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 317-325

  Rowland, Belinda ^a,d   Purkayastha, Anjan ^a,b   Monserrat, Catherine ^a   Casart, Yveth ^c   Takiff, Howard ^c   McDonough, Kathleen A ^a,b  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas Centro de Microbiologia y Biologia Celular   (Venezuela)

^d August C Stiefel Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta galactosidase; Fluorescein di D galactopyranoside; Fluorescence assay; Gene expression; Green fluorescent protein; Mycobacterium

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE;

BACTERIA; FLUORESCEINS; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LAC OPERON; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MYCOBACTERIUM;

MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS BCG;

EID: 0032823547     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00430-9     Document Type: Article

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