Enhanced microbial biomass assay using mutant luciferase resistant to benzalkonium chloride

Analytical Biochemistry

Volumn 319, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 287-295

  Hattori, Noriaki ^a   Sakakibara, Tatsuya ^a   Kajiyama, Naoki ^a   Igarashi, Toshinori ^a   Maeda, Masako ^b   Murakami, Seiji ^a  

^a KIKKOMAN CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

ATP bioluminescence; Benzalkonium chloride; Firefly luciferase; Microbial biomass assay

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOLOGY; BIOLUMINESCENCE; BIOMASS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ENZYMES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTRACTION; PHOSPHORESCENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRICHLOROACETIC ACID;

ATP BIOLUMINESCENCE; BENZALKONIUM CHLORIDE; COEFFICIENTS OF VARIATIONS; EXTRACTION EFFICIENCIES; FIREFLY LUCIFERASE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

YEAST;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BENZALKONIUM CHLORIDE; INSECT PROTEIN; LUCIFERASE; MUTANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME MECHANISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REPRODUCIBILITY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MIRABILIS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0037491825     PISSN: 00032697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-2697(03)00322-1     Document Type: Article

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