Microbial biosensors: Engineered microorganisms as the sensing machinery

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 5777-5795

  Park, Miso ^a   Tsai, Shen Long ^b   Chen, Wilfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Genetic circuits; Scaffolds; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

MACHINERY; MICROORGANISMS; SCAFFOLDS; SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

DESIRABLE OUTPUTS; ENZYME-BASED BIOSENSORS; GENETIC CIRCUITS; GENETICALLY MODIFIED; MICROBIAL BIOSENSOR; SIGNAL OUTPUT; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; WHOLE-CELL BIOSENSORS;

BIOSENSORS;

EID: 84877653660     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s130505777     Document Type: Review

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