Construction and use of an stx1 transcriptional fusion to gfp

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 245, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 73-77

  Aertsen, Abram ^a   Van Houdt, Rob ^a   Michiels, Chris W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; Flow cytometry; GFP promoter fusion; Shiga toxin

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; EDETIC ACID; HYBRID PROTEIN; MITOMYCIN C; PROTEIN FUR; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEROTOXIN 1;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FUSION GENE; GENE FUSION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GFP GENE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IRON RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; LYSOGENIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR PROBE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROPHAGE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; VALIDATION PROCESS; WILD TYPE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 15744364453     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2005.02.024     Document Type: Article

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