Real-time monitoring of metabolic shift and transcriptional induction of yciG:: LuxCDABE E. Coli reporter strain to a glucose pulse of different concentrations

Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 157, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 379-390

  Sunya, Sirichai ^a,b,c   Gorret, Nathalie ^a,b,c   Delvigne, Frank ^d   Uribelarrea, Jean Louis ^a,b,c   Molina Jouve, Carole ^a,b,c  

^a INSA   (France)

^b UMR792 INGÉNIERIE DES SYSTÈMES BIOLOGIQUES ET DES PROCÉDÉS   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Chemostat; Dynamic response; Escherichia coli yciG::luxCDABE fusion; Glucose pulse; In situ bioluminescence

Indexed keywords

BIOPROCESSES; CHEMOSTAT CULTURE; DILUTION RATE; DOSE-DEPENDENT; E. COLI; EX SITU; EXTERNAL STIMULUS; IN-SITU; METABOLIC ACTIVITY; METABOLIC SHIFT; MICROBIAL PHYSIOLOGY; MICROBIAL RESPONSE; REAL TIME MONITORING; REPRODUCIBILITIES; STRESS RESPONSE; SUDDEN CHANGE; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVITY; TRANSCRIPTIONAL LEVELS;

CHEMOSTATS; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUCOSE; METABOLISM; MONITORING; PHOSPHORESCENCE; PHYSIOLOGY;

BIOLUMINESCENCE;

GLUCOSE; SUGAR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CHEMOSTAT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DILUTION CURVE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METABOLIC BALANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BIOMASS; BIOREACTORS; CHROMATOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSE; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84856709198     PISSN: 01681656     EISSN: 18734863     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2011.12.009     Document Type: Article

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