Comparison of two RT-PCR methods for quantifying ampC specific transcripts in Escherichia coli strains

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 228, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 187-191

  Corvec, Stéphane ^a   Caroff, Nathalie ^b   Espaze, Eric ^a   Marraillac, Julie ^a   Drugeon, Henri ^a   Reynaud, Alain ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

ampC gene; Expression; Regulation; Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; MESSENGER RNA;

AMPC GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0344153773     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00757-2     Document Type: Article

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