Bacteria in Solitary Confinement

Even in clonal bacterial cultures, individual bacteria can show substantial stochastic variation, leading to pitfalls in the interpretation of data derived from millions of cells in a culture. In this issue of the Journal of Bacteriology, as part of their study on osmoadaptation in a cyanobacterium,...

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Autor principal: Mullineaux, Conrad W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society for Microbiology 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4334195/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25488297
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JB.02509-14
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description Even in clonal bacterial cultures, individual bacteria can show substantial stochastic variation, leading to pitfalls in the interpretation of data derived from millions of cells in a culture. In this issue of the Journal of Bacteriology, as part of their study on osmoadaptation in a cyanobacterium, Nanatani et al. describe employing an ingenious microfluidic device that gently cages individual cells (J Bacteriol 197:676–687, 2015, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JB.02276-14). The device is a welcome addition to the toolkit available to probe the responses of individual cells to environmental cues.
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spelling pubmed-43341952015-03-17 Bacteria in Solitary Confinement Mullineaux, Conrad W. J Bacteriol Commentaries Even in clonal bacterial cultures, individual bacteria can show substantial stochastic variation, leading to pitfalls in the interpretation of data derived from millions of cells in a culture. In this issue of the Journal of Bacteriology, as part of their study on osmoadaptation in a cyanobacterium, Nanatani et al. describe employing an ingenious microfluidic device that gently cages individual cells (J Bacteriol 197:676–687, 2015, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JB.02276-14). The device is a welcome addition to the toolkit available to probe the responses of individual cells to environmental cues. American Society for Microbiology 2015-01-21 2015-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4334195/ /pubmed/25488297 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JB.02509-14 Text en Copyright © 2015 Mullineaux http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) .
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4334195/
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