An in vitro biofilm model system maintaining a highly reproducible species and metabolic diversity approaching that of the human oral microbiome

Microbiome

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Edlund, Anna ^a,b   Yang, Youngik ^a   Hall, Adam P ^a   Guo, Lihong ^b   Lux, Renate ^b   He, Xuesong ^b   Nelson, Karen E ^a   Nealson, Kenneth H ^a,c   Yooseph, Shibu ^a   Shi, Wenyuan ^b   McLean, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UCLA SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofilm; In vitro model; Lactobacillus; Oral microbiome; Saliva; Streptococcus; Uncultivated bacteria

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; RNA 16S;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA EXTRACTION; FUSOBACTERIUM; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; LACTOBACILLUS; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOME; MOUTH CAVITY; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PH; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SALIVA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STREPTOCOCCUS; TAXONOMY; VEILLONELLA PARVULA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTOBACILLUS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 84920483040     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20492618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2049-2618-1-25     Document Type: Article

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