The construction of a whole-cell biosensor for phosphonoacetate, based on the LysR-like transcriptional regulator PhnR from Pseudomonas fluorescens 23F

Microbial Biotechnology

Volumn 2, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 2009, Pages 234-240

  Kulakova, Anna N ^a   Kulakov, Leonid A ^a   McGrath, John W ^a   Quinn, John P ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETALDEHYDE; ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LYSINE DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHONOACETIC ACID;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSENSOR; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE VECTOR; HOST RANGE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHNR GENE; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; STRUCTURAL GENE; WHOLE CELL;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ENGINEERING; OPERON; PHOSPHONOACETIC ACID; PHOSPHORIC MONOESTER HYDROLASES; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 77953596410     PISSN: 17517907     EISSN: 17517915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7915.2008.00082.x     Document Type: Article

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