Benchmarking various green fluorescent protein variants in Bacillus subtilis, Streptococcus pneumoniae, and Lactococcus lactis for live cell imaging

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 6481-6490

  Overkamp, Wout ^a,b   Beilharz, Katrin ^a   Weme, Ruud Detert Oude ^a   Solopova, Ana ^a   Karsens, Harma ^a   Kovács, Ákos T ^a,c   Kok, Jan ^a   Kuipers, Oscar P ^a,b   Veening, Jan Willem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b KLUYVER CENTRE FOR GENOMICS OF INDUSTRIAL FERMENTATION   (Netherlands)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE;

EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; LIVE-CELL IMAGING; PROMOTER ACTIVITIES; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

PROTEINS;

ADAPTATION; BACTERIOLOGY; BACTERIUM; BENCHMARKING; DATA SET; PROTEIN;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIAL DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; EVALUATION STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; QUALITY CONTROL; STAINING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BENCHMARKING; DNA, BACTERIAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAINING AND LABELING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84885074528     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02033-13     Document Type: Article

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