Intra-species bacterial quorum sensing studied at single cell level in a double droplet trapping system

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 10570-10581

  Bai, Yunpeng ^a   Patil, Santoshkumar N ^a   Bowden, Steven D ^a   Poulter, Simon ^a   Pan, Jie ^a   Salmond, George P C ^a   Welch, Martin ^a   Huck, Wilhelm T S ^a,b   Abell, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bacterial quorum sensing; Droplet based microfluidics; Single cell

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LASR PROTEIN; N (3 OXODODECANOYL)HOMOSERINE LACTONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GAMMA BUTYROLACTONE; HOMOSERINE; LASI PROTEIN, PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; LASR PROTEIN, PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; N-(3-OXODODECANOYL)HOMOSERINE LACTONE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DENSITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE DROPLET TRAPPING SYSTEM; ENCAPSULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LASI GENE; MICROFLUIDICS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUORUM SENSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; CYTOLOGY; DEVICES; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; PROMOTER REGION;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HOMOSERINE; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; QUORUM SENSING; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84878221997     PISSN: 16616596     EISSN: 14220067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijms140510570     Document Type: Article

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