Improvement of an E. coli bioreporter for monitoring trace amounts of phenol by deletion of the inducible σ54-dependent promoter

Biotechnology Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1265-1270

  Peng, Zixin ^a   Yan, Yongliang ^a   Xu, Yuquan ^a   Takeo, Masahiro ^b   Yu, Haiying ^a   Zhao, Zhonglin ^c   Zhan, Yuhua ^a   Zhang, Wei ^a   Lin, Min ^a   Chen, Ming ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

^c SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bioreporter; Escherichia coli; Inverted repeat sequence; MopR; mphK promoter

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER CALCOACETICUS; BIOREPORTER; DELETION ANALYSIS; E. COLI; GALACTOSIDASES; INVERTED REPEAT; MOPR; MPHK PROMOTER; PROMOTER ACTIVITIES; TRACE AMOUNTS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPRESSION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

PHENOLS;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; MOPR PROTEIN, ACINETOBACTER CALCOACETICUS; PHENOL; RPON PROTEIN, E COLI; SIGMA FACTOR RPON; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ACINETOBACTER CALCOACETICUS; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; POLLUTANT; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACINETOBACTER CALCOACETICUS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, REPORTER; PHENOL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA POLYMERASE SIGMA 54; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ACINETOBACTER CALCOACETICUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 77955711732     PISSN: 01415492     EISSN: 15736776     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10529-010-0317-6     Document Type: Article

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