Internal arsenite bioassay calibration using multiple bioreporter cell lines

Microbial Biotechnology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 149-157

  Wackwitz, Anke ^a   Harms, Hauke ^a   Chatzinotas, Antonis ^a   Breuer, Uta ^a   Vogne, Christelle ^b   Van Der Meer, Jan Roelof ^b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CYTOCHROME C PEROXIDASE; DRINKING WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOASSAY; BIOREPORTER; CALIBRATION; CATALYSIS; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL LINE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LIGHT INTENSITY; MICROBIAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; SIGNAL DETECTION;

ARSENITES; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; CALIBRATION; CYTOCHROME-C PEROXIDASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, REPORTER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 57549113280     PISSN: 17517907     EISSN: 17517915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7915.2007.00011.x     Document Type: Article

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