Where microbiology meets microengineering: Design and applications of reporter bacteria

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 511-522

  Van Der Meer, Jan Roelof ^a   Belkin, Shimshon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; LUCIFERASE;

ALGORITHM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BINDING SITE; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOENGINEERING; BIOLUMINESCENCE; BIOSENSOR; COLORIMETRY; CYTOPLASM; DNA REPLICATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; REPORTER GENE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIA; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77953622209     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2392     Document Type: Review

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