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APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
卷 74, 期 24, 页码 7497-7506出版社
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01626-08
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- NSF [BES-0418157/CBET0824629]
- NIH/NIGMS [T32GM08449]
- Div Of Chem, Bioeng, Env, & Transp Sys
- Directorate For Engineering [0824629] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
The study of microbial heterogeneity at the single-cell level is a rapidly growing area of research in microbiology and biotechnology due to its significance in pathogenesis, environmental biology, and industrial biotechnologies. However, the tools available for efficiently and precisely probing such heterogeneity are limited for most bacteria. Here we describe the development and application of flow-cytometric (FC) and fluorescence-assisted cell-sorting techniques for the study of endospore-forming bacteria. We show that by combining FC light scattering (LS) with nucleic acid staining, we can discriminate, quantify, and enrich all sporulation-associated morphologies exhibited by the endospore-forming anaerobe Clostridium acetobutylicum. Using FC LS analysis, we quantitatively show that clostridial cultures commonly perform multiple rounds of sporulation and that sporulation is induced earlier by the overexpression of Spo0A, the master regulator of endospore formers. To further demonstrate the power of our approach, we employed FC LS analysis to generate compelling evidence to challenge the long-accepted view in the field that the clostridial cell form is the solvent-forming phenotype.
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