Table 1.
Reported attempts to construct microbial bioreporters for explosives’ detection.
| Organism | Reporting element | Target analytes(A) | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unspecified bacterium | GFP | TNT | Burlage et al., 1999 |
| Vibrio fischeri(B) | Intrinsic lux operon | TNT, 4A-DNT, 2A-DNT | Frische, 2002 |
| Escherichia coli | GFP | TNT, L-lactate, serotonin | Looger et al., 2003(C) |
| Dictyosphaerium chlorelloides | Intrinsic chlorophyll A fluorescence | TNT | Altamirano et al., 2004 |
| Saccharomyces cerevisiae | GFP | DNT | Radhika et al., 2007 |
| Pseudomonas putida | luxAB, GFP | DNT | Garmendia et al., 2008 |
| Escherichia coli | Flagellar motion | nitrite, nitrate | Kim et al., 2008 |
| Escherichia coli | GFP | DNT | Lönneborg et al., 2012 |
| Escherichia coli | GFP | DNT | Davidson et al., 2012 |
| Escherichia coli | GFPmut2, luxCDABE | DNT, TNT | Yagur-Kroll et al., 2014 |
| Escherichia coli | GFP | DNT, TNT, DNB | Tan et al., 2015 |
(A) TNT: 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene; DNT: 2,4-dinitrotoluene; 4A-DNT: 4-amino-2,6-dinitrotoluene; 2A-DNT: 2-amino-4,6-dinitrotoluene; DNB: dinitrobenzene; (B) Now Aliivibrio fischeri; (C) Results were contested by Reimer et al. (2014).