Dual reporter system for in situ detection of plasmid transfer under aerobic and anaerobic conditions

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 4553-4556

  Król, Jaroslaw E ^a   Rogers, Linda M ^a   Krone, Stephen M ^a   Top, Eva M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC AND ANAEROBIC CONDITIONS; AEROBIC CONDITION; GENETIC TOOLS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; IN-SITU; MARINER TRANSPOSON; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; REPORTER SYSTEMS; RNA POLYMERASE;

BIODEGRADABLE POLYMERS; FLUORESCENCE; MICROBIOLOGY; OXYGEN; RNA;

PROTEINS;

BACTERIOPHAGE T7 RNA POLYMERASE; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PHOTOPROTEIN; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; DETECTION METHOD; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC MARKER; OXIC CONDITIONS; PLASMID; PROTEIN;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE T7; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVALUATION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSPOSON; VIROLOGY;

AEROBIOSIS; ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIOPHAGE T7; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 77954276395     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00226-10     Document Type: Article

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