Microcystin production revisited: Conjugate formation makes a major contribution

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1810-1820

  Meissner, Sven ^a   Fastner, Jutta ^b   Dittmann, Elke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UMWELTBUNDESAMT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHANOL; MICROCYSTIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; LIGHT; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN BINDING; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; CYANOBACTERIA; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; LIGHT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHANOL; MICROCYSTINS; PROTEIN BINDING;

CYANOBACTERIA; MICROCYSTIS; NODULARIA; PLANKTOTHRIX;

EID: 84878630312     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12072     Document Type: Article

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