Quantitative, Non-Disruptive Monitoring of Transcription in Single Cells with a Broad-Host Range GFP-luxCDABE Dual Reporter System

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Benedetti, Ilaria Maria ^a   de Lorenzo, Victor ^a   Silva Rocha, Rafael ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZOIC ACID; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE PROBE; GENE REPLICATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOST RANGE; LUXCDABE GENE; NONHUMAN; PB GENE; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; PTRC GENE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL TRACKING; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ORDER; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; ISOPROPYL THIOGALACTOSIDE; KINETICS; PLASMIDS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 84871700696     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052000     Document Type: Article

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