Tunable reporter signal production in feedback-uncoupled arsenic bioreporters

Microbial Biotechnology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 503-514

  Merulla, Davide ^a   Hatzimanikatis, Vassily ^b,c   Van der Meer, Jan Roelof ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUOROMETRY; FUSION GENE; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; RESTRICTION SITE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84877649828     PISSN: 17517907     EISSN: 17517915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1751-7915.12031     Document Type: Article

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