Construction of a ColD cda promoter-based SOS-green fluorescent protein whole-cell biosensor with higher sensitivity toward genotoxic compounds than constructs based on recA, umuDC, or sulA promoters

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 2338-2346

  Norman, Anders ^a   Hansen, Lars Hestbjerg ^a   Sørensen, Søren J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; BIOSENSORS; CARCINOGENS; DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FORMALDEHYDE; GENES; SCREENING;

GENOTOXINS; GREE FLUORESCENT PROTEIN (GFP); WHOLE-CELL BIOSENSORS; WILD-TYPE STRAIN;

PROTEINS;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; METHYLNITRONITROSOGUANIDINE; PROTEIN CDA; PROTEIN CO1D; PROTEIN SULA; PROTEIN UMUDC; RECA PROTEIN; SOS PROTEIN; TOLC PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BIOSENSOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WHOLE CELL BIOSENSOR; WILD TYPE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; METHYLNITRONITROSOGUANIDINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REC A RECOMBINASES; SOS RESPONSE (GENETICS);

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SULA;

EID: 18444412273     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.5.2338-2346.2005     Document Type: Article

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