Engineering of new prodigiosin-based biosensors of Serratia for facile detection of short-chain N-acyl homoserine lactone quorum-sensing molecules

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 322-328

  Poulter, Simon ^a   Carlton, Timothy M ^a   Su, Xianbin ^a   Spring, David R ^a   Salmond, George P C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; RHIZOBIUM; SERRATIA; SERRATIA SP. ATCC 39006;

EID: 78649717412     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2010.00140.x     Document Type: Article

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