LacI(Ts)-regulated expression as an in situ intracellular biomolecular thermometer

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2863-2868

  McCabe, K M ^a   Lacherndo, E J ^a   Albino Flores, I ^b   Sheehan, E ^a   Hernandez, M ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIO-MOLECULAR; E. COLI; GALACTOSIDASES; HEAT CONTENTS; IN-SITU; LYSATES; MODEL SYSTEM; NEAR-REAL TIME; NON-AQUEOUS; REPORTING SYSTEMS; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; TEMPERATURE-SENSITIVE; TRANSFER CAPACITIES;

ENTHALPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; THERMOMETERS;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; LAC REPRESSOR; LACI PROTEIN, E COLI;

COLIFORM BACTERIUM; COLORIMETRY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HEAT TRANSFER; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; COLORIMETRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUOROMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TEMPERATURE;

BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; COLORIMETRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FLUOROMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LAC REPRESSORS; TEMPERATURE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 79955582414     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01915-10     Document Type: Article

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