Environmental Sensing of Heavy Metals Through Whole Cell Microbial Biosensors: A Synthetic Biology Approach

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 535-546

  Bereza Malcolm, Lara Tess ^a   Mann, Gülay ^b   Franks, Ashley Edwin ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAVY METAL;

ARTICLE; BIOSENSOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; NONHUMAN; PHOTOBACTERIUM PHOSPHOREUM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TOXICITY; WHOLE CELL; WHOLE CELL MICROBIAL BIOSENSOR; BACTERIUM; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROMOTER REGION;

BACTERIA; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; METALS, HEAVY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84929601002     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sb500286r     Document Type: Article

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