Chromosomal integration of the green fluorescent protein gene in lactic acid bacteria and the survival of marked strains in human gut simulations

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 182, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 23-27

  Scott, Karen P ^a   Mercer, Derry K ^a   Richardson, Anthony J ^a   Melville, Claire M ^a   Glover, L Anne ^a   Flint, Harry J ^a  

^a ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chromosomal integration; gfp; Gram positive bacterium; Tetracycline resistance; Tn916

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FECES MICROFLORA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIA; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FECES; FERMENTATION; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VECTORS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; LACTIC ACID; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; STREPTOCOCCUS; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII;

EID: 0033987216     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00559-5     Document Type: Article

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