Simple conjugation and outgrowth procedures for tagging vibrios with GFP, and factors affecting the stable expression of the gfp tag

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 514-522

  Sawabe, T ^a   Fukui, Y ^a   Stabb, E V ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Green fluorescent protein; Host microbe interaction; Pathogen; Selective culture; Symbiont

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DNA; FLUORESCENCE; PROTEINS; SODIUM ALGINATE;

CONJUGATIVE TRANSFER; E. COLI; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HOST-MICROBE INTERACTION; MARINE BACTERIUM; SELECTIVE CULTURE; SIMPLE++; STABLE EXPRESSION; SYMBIONT; WILD TYPES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

AGAR; ALGINIC ACID; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

CELL CULTURE; CELLS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PATHOLOGY; PROTEINS;

COLIFORM BACTERIUM; COLONIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PLASMID; PROTEIN; TAGGING;

AEROBIC CAPACITY; ANAEROBIC CAPACITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER; GFP GENE; HOST; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TECHNIQUE; VIBRIO; WILD TYPE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; VIBRIO;

EID: 33750023086     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: 1472765X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-765X.2006.01992.x     Document Type: Article

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