Green fluorescent protein-labeled monitoring tool to quantify conjugative plasmid transfer between Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 895-899

  Arends, Karsten ^a   Schiwon, Katarzyna ^a   Sakinc, Türkan ^b   Hübner, Johannes ^b   Grohmann, Elisabeth ^a,b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ISOLATES; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MONITORING TOOLS;

BACILLI; DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

FLUORESCENCE;

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

BACTERIUM; FLUORESCENCE; MOBILITY; MONITORING; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; METABOLISM; PLASMID; REPORTER GENE; STAINING;

CONJUGATION, GENETIC; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; STAINING AND LABELING;

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 84856207950     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.05578-11     Document Type: Article

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