title: Bioreporters and biosensors for arsenic detection. Biotechnological solutions for a world-wide pollution problem.
abstract: A wide variety of whole cell bioreporter and biosensor assays for arsenic detection has been developed over the past decade. The assays permit flexible detection instrumentation while maintaining excellent method of detection limits in the environmentally relevant range of 10-50 μg arsenite per L and below. New emerging trends focus on genetic rewiring of reporter cells and/or integration into microdevices for more optimal detection. A number of case studies have shown realistic field applicability of bioreporter assays.
authors.affiliation: Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Davide
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Merulla
authors.forename: Nina
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Buffi
authors.forename: Siham
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Beggah
authors.forename: Frédéric
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Truffer
authors.forename: Martial
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Geiser
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Renaud
authors.forename: Jan Roelof
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: van der Meer
mesh_terms: D001151:Arsenic / Q000032:analysis*; D018053:Arsenites / Q000032:analysis; D001681:Biological Assay / Q000379:methods*; D015374:Biosensing Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D001709:Biotechnology / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D018053:Arsenites; C015001:arsenite; D001151:Arsenic