Tunable Expression Tools Enable Single-Cell Strain Distinction in the Gut Microbiome

Cell

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 538-546.e12

  Whitaker, Weston R ^a,b   Shepherd, Elizabeth Stanley ^a   Sonnenburg, Justin L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Novome Biotechnologies   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteroides; colonization; fluorescent microscopy; gene expression; microbiome; promoter; synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FLUORESCENT DYE; GENOMIC DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTEROIDES; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GNOTOBIOTICS; IN VIVO STUDY; INTESTINE FLORA; MOUSE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; GERMFREE ANIMAL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION;

ANIMALS; BACTEROIDES; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GERM-FREE LIFE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC;

EID: 85018496784     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: 10974172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.03.041     Document Type: Article

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