Measurement of bacterial gene expression in vivo

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 355, Issue 1397, 2000, Pages 601-611

  Hautefort, Isabelle ^a   Hinton, Jay C D ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fluorescence activated cell sorting; Green fluorescent protein (GFP); In vivo antigen technology; In vivo expression technology; In vivo induced fluorescence (IVIF); Lux

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PROCEDURES AND TECHNIQUES; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ANIMAL MODEL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; DIFFERENTIAL DISPLAY; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VIVO STUDY; PROTEOME;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0034729353     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2000.0601     Document Type: Article

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