Detection of microcystin synthetase genes in health food supplements containing the freshwater cyanobacterium Aphanizomenon flos-aquae

Toxicon

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 555-562

  Saker, M L ^a   Jungblut, A D ^b   Neilan, B A ^b   Rawn, D F K ^c   Vasconcelos, V M ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c FOOD RESEARCH DIVISION   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Aphanizomenon; Health food supplements; Microcystin; Microcystis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; CYANOGINOSIN; CYANOGINOSIN LR; FRESH WATER; MICROCYSTIN SYNTHETASE; PHYCOCYANIN; RIBOSOME RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APHANIZOMENON FLOS AQUAE; ARTICLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; INTERNET; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXICITY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYANOBACTERIA; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DNA; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; MICROCYSTINS; OPERON; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; PHYCOCYANIN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

APHANIZOMENON; APHANIZOMENON FLOS AQUAE; CYANOBACTERIA; MICROCYSTIS; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 24344491167     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2005.06.021     Document Type: Article

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