Tracing explosives in soil with transcriptional regulators of Pseudomonas putida evolved for responding to nitrotoluenes

Microbial Biotechnology

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 236-246

  Garmendia, Junkal ^a,b   De Las Heras, Aitor ^a   Galvão, Teca Calcagno ^a,c   De Lorenzo, Víctor ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b Hospital Joan March   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,4 DINITROTOLUENE; AROMATIC NITRO COMPOUND; EXPLOSIVE; TOLUENE DERIVATIVE; TRINITROTOLUENE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOSENSOR; BURKHOLDERIA; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPLOSION; EXPLOSION RISK; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MINER; MINING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL MICROFLORA; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EXPLOSIVE AGENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRINITROTOLUENE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 53149116351     PISSN: 17517907     EISSN: 17517915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7915.2008.00027.x     Document Type: Article

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