Evaluation and validation of a novel Arxula adeninivorans estrogen screen (nAES) assay and its application in analysis of wastewater, seawater, brackish water and urine

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 6017-6026

  Kaiser, Christian ^a   Uhlig, Steffen ^b   Gerlach, Torsten ^a   Körner, Martina ^a   Simon, Kirsten ^b   Kunath, Kirstin ^b   Florschütz, Kristina ^a   Baronian, Keith ^c   Kunze, Gotthard ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^b Quo Data GmbH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Arxula adeninivorans; Endocrine disruption; Estrogen receptor; Reporter assay; Urine; Yeast assay

Indexed keywords

ARXULA ADENINIVORANS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTION; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; REPORTER ASSAY; URINE; YEAST ASSAY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SEAWATER; SEWAGE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WASTEWATER; YEAST;

BODY FLUIDS;

BRACKISH WATER; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; GLUCAN 1,4 ALPHA GLUCOSIDASE; PHYTASE; SEA WATER; TANNASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

BIOASSAY; BRACKISH WATER; DETECTION METHOD; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; GENE EXPRESSION; SEAWATER; URINE; WASTEWATER; YEAST;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ARXULA ADENINIVORANS ESTROGEN SCREEN ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; ESTROGEN RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCREENING TEST; URINALYSIS; VALIDITY; WASTE WATER; WATER ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; ESTROGENS; FRESH WATER; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SEAWATER; SWINE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ARXULA; ARXULA ADENINIVORANS; KLEBSIELLA SP.; SUIDAE;

EID: 77958101210     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.08.050     Document Type: Article

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