Designing a bacterial biosensor for detection of mercury in water solutions

Turkish Journal of Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 550-555

  Roointan, Amir ^a,b   Shabab, Nooshin ^c   Karimi, Jamshid ^c   Rahmani, Alireza ^d   Alikhani, Mohammad Yousef ^c   saidijam, Massoud ^a,c  

^a HAMADAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c HAMADAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d HAMADAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Biosensing techniques; Green fluorescent proteins; Mercury; merR; Whole cell biosensors

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 84935430511     PISSN: 13000152     EISSN: 13036092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3906/biy-1411-49     Document Type: Article

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