Construction of self-transmissible green fluorescent protein-based biosensor plasmids and their use for identification of n-acyl homoserine-producing bacteria in lake sediments

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 6119-6127

  Lumjiaktase, Putthapoom ^a   Aguilar, Claudio ^a   Battin, Tom ^b   Riedel, Kathrin ^a   Eberl, Leo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; BACTERIAL SPECIES; FLUORESCENT CELLS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HOMOSERINE; IN-SITU; LAKE SEDIMENTS; N-ACYL HOMOSERINE LACTONES; NATURAL HABITAT; PROTEOBACTERIA; QUORUM-SENSING; SELF-SPREADING; SIGNAL MOLECULES;

AMINO ACIDS; BIOSENSORS; ECOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE; LAKES; PROTEINS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

BACTERIOLOGY;

DRUG DERIVATIVE; FRESH WATER; GAMMA BUTYROLACTONE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HOMOSERINE LACTONE; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PLASMID; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; QUORUM SENSING; SEDIMENT; SWITZERLAND;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; QUORUM SENSING; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWITZERLAND;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 77956809117     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00677-10     Document Type: Article

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