Quantitative determination of free-DNA uptake in river bacteria at the single-cell level by in situ rolling-circle amplification

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 6248-6256

  Maruyama, Fumito ^a   Tani, Katsuji ^a   Kenzaka, Takehiko ^a   Yamaguchi, Nobuyasu ^a   Nasu, Masao ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE; BACTERIA; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MICROBIOLOGY; PROTEINS;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; FLUORESCENT PROTEIN GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; PLASMID DNA;

DNA;

BACTERIAL DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PLASMID DNA;

AMPLIFICATION; BACTERIUM; DNA; GENE; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MICROSCOPY; MONITORING; PLASMID; PROTEIN; RIVER WATER;

ACCURACY; ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTEROIDES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CELL COUNT; CELL PERMEABILIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPHAGA; DNA DETERMINATION; FIRMICUTES; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GFP GENE; IN SITU ROLLING CIRCLE DNA AMPLIFICATION; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RIVER;

BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; DNA, RECOMBINANT; FRESH WATER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; JAPAN; KINETICS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PLASMIDS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; KINKI; OSAKA [KINKI];

EID: 33748801467     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03035-05     Document Type: Article

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