Single-cell analysis in situ in a Bacillus subtilis swarming community identifies distinct spatially separated subpopulations differentially expressing hag (flagellin), including specialized swarmers

Microbiology

Volumn 157, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2456-2469

  Hamze, Kassem ^a,e   Autret, Sabine ^a   Hinc, Krzysztof ^a,b   Laalami, Soumaya ^c   Julkowska, Daria ^a,f   Briandet, Romain ^d   Renault, Margareth ^d   Absalon, Cédric ^a,g   Barry Holland, I ^a   Putzer, Harald ^c   Séror, Simone J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

^c INST DE BIOLOGIE PHYSICO CHIMIQUE   (France)

^d UMR1319 MICALIS   (France)

^e LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^f GIS Institut des Maladies Rares   (France)

^g BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAGELLIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMIDITY; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOTA; FLAGELLIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMIDITY; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CHLOROCRAMBE HASTATA;

EID: 80052367561     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.047159-0     Document Type: Article

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