Measuring single-cell gene expression dynamics in bacteria using fluorescence time-lapse microscopy

Nature Protocols

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 80-88

  Young, Jonathan W ^a   Locke, James C W ^a   Altinok, Alphan ^a   Rosenfeld, Nitzan ^b   Bacarian, Tigran ^c   Swain, Peter S ^d   Mjolsness, Eric ^e   Elowitz, Michael B ^f  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CANCER RESEARCH UK CAMBRIDGE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY STANKIN   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e Irvine   (United States)

^f California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPOROGENESIS; TIME LAPSE IMAGING;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84860653367     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2011.432     Document Type: Article

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