Detection and quantification of tetracyclines by whole cell biosensors

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 190, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 273-278

  Hansen, Lars Hestbjerg ^a   Sørensen, Søren Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Gfp; LacZ; Lux; Reporter gene; Tetracycline; Whole cell biosensor

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; OXYTETRACYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BIOSENSOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LAC OPERON; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MILK; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TETRACYCLINES; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0034666679     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00347-5     Document Type: Article

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