Rapid multiplex detection and differentiation of Listeria cells by use of fluorescent phage endolysin cell wall binding domains

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 5745-5756

  Schmelcher, Mathias ^a,b   Shabarova, Tatiana ^a   Eugster, Marcel R ^a   Eichenseher, Fritz ^a   Tchang, Vincent S ^a   Banz, Manuel ^a   Loessner, Martin J ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING AFFINITIES; BINDING ASSAYS; BINDING PROPERTIES; BINDING SPECIFICITIES; CELL WALL-BINDING DOMAIN; CELL WALLS; CONTAMINATED MILK; FLUORESCENT MARKERS; FOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; FUNCTIONAL DOMAINS; FUSION PROTEINS; MIXED BACTERIAL CULTURE; MORTALITY RATE; MULTIPLEXED DETECTION; N-TERMINALS; NANOMOLAR RANGE; SEQUENCE COMPARISONS; SURFACE PLASMONS;

BACTERIOPHAGES; BINDING ENERGY; DISEASES; FLUORESCENCE; LISTERIA; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MAGNETIC SEPARATION; MULTIPLEXING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

CELL CULTURE;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; ENDOLYSIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; PHOTOPROTEIN; PROTEINASE;

BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; FLUORESCENCE; MORTALITY; PATHOGEN; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CELL WALL; CLASSIFICATION; ENZYMOLOGY; EVALUATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LISTERIA; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PROTEIN BINDING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BACTERIOPHAGES; CELL WALL; ENDOPEPTIDASES; LISTERIA; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA;

EID: 77956573488     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00801-10     Document Type: Article

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