A low-cost, multiplexable, automated flow cytometry procedure for the characterization of microbial stress dynamics in bioreactors

Microbial Cell Factories

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Brognaux, Alison ^a,b   Han, Shanshan ^c   Sørensen, Søren J ^c   Lebeau, Frédéric ^a   Thonart, Philippe ^a   Delvigne, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b FNRS   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Automated flow cytometry; Escherichia coli; Green fluorescent protein; Membrane permeability; Mini bioreactors; Phenotypic heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PROPIDIUM IODIDE; PROTEINASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOREACTOR; ENERGY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MICROBIAL STRESS DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BIOREACTORS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; SHEAR STRENGTH; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 84887895265     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2859-12-100     Document Type: Article

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