Bioreporters and biosensors for arsenic detection. Biotechnological solutions for a world-wide pollution problem

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 534-541

  Merulla, Davide ^a   Buffi, Nina ^b   Beggah, Siham ^a   Truffer, Frédéric ^c   Geiser, Martial ^c   Renaud, Philippe ^b   Van der Meer, Jan Roelof ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c Institut Systèmes industriels   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC DETECTION; DETECTION LIMITS; EMERGING TRENDS; MICRODEVICES; OPTIMAL DETECTION; POLLUTION PROBLEMS; WHOLE CELL;

ARSENIC;

BIOSENSORS;

ARSENIC; BETA GALACTOSIDASE;

BIOASSAY; BIOSENSOR; BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DEGRADATION; DIODE; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ENZYME KINETICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MICROFLUIDICS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DESIGN; PROKARYOTE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; QUORUM SENSING; REVIEW; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS PALUSTRIS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

ARSENIC; ARSENITES; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; BIOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84878667315     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: 18790429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2012.09.002     Document Type: Review

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