Design and application of a lactulose biosensor

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Wu, Jieyuan ^a,d   Jiang, Peixia ^a   Chen, Wei ^a   Xiong, Dandan ^a,d   Huang, Linglan ^b   Jia, Junying ^c   Chen, Yuanyuan ^c   Jin, Jian Ming ^b   Tang, Shuang Yan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIJING TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAC REPRESSOR; LACTULOSE;

DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; LACTOSE OPERON; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LAC OPERON; LAC REPRESSORS; LACTULOSE; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION;

EID: 85017276302     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep45994     Document Type: Article

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