Highly Sensitive, Highly Specific Whole-Cell Bioreporters for the Detection of Chromate in Environmental Samples

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Branco, Rita ^a,b   Cristóvão, Armando ^c,d   Morais, Paula V ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b University School Vasco da Gama   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMIC ACID; HEAVY METAL; RIVER WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BIOENGINEERING; BIOSENSOR; CELL GROWTH; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHRB GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GFP GENE; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MICROBIAL BIOREPORTER; NONHUMAN; OCHROBACTRUM; OCHROBACTRUM TRITICI; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TYPE STRAIN; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING; WHOLE CELL;

CHROMATES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; OCHROBACTRUM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; OCHROBACTRUM TRITICI;

EID: 84872251528     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054005     Document Type: Article

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