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Respiration response imaging for real-time detection of microbial function at the single-cell level.

ABSTRACT: The ability to detect specific functions of uncultured microbial cells in complex natural communities remains one of the most difficult tasks of environmental microbiology. Here we present respiration response imaging (RRI) as a novel fluorescence microscopy-based approach for the identification of microbial function, such as the ability to use C(1) substrates, at a single-cell level. We demonstrate that RRI could be used for the investigation of heterogeneity of a single microbial population or for functional profiling of microbial cells from complex environmental communities, such as freshwater lake sediment.

SUBMITTER: Konopka MC

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3019738 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Respiration response imaging for real-time detection of microbial function at the single-cell level.

Konopka M C MC Strovas T J TJ Ojala David S DS Chistoserdova L L Lidstrom M E ME Kalyuzhnaya M G MG

Applied and environmental microbiology 20101112 1

The ability to detect specific functions of uncultured microbial cells in complex natural communities remains one of the most difficult tasks of environmental microbiology. Here we present respiration response imaging (RRI) as a novel fluorescence microscopy-based approach for the identification of microbial function, such as the ability to use C(1) substrates, at a single-cell level. We demonstrate that RRI could be used for the investigation of heterogeneity of a single microbial population or ...[more]

PMID: 21075887

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