Metabolic interactions between dynamic bacterial subpopulations

eLife

Volumn 7, Issue , 2018, Pages

  Rosenthal, Adam Z ^a,b   Qi, Yutao ^a,b   Hormoz, Sahand ^a,b   Park, Jin ^a,b   Li, Sophia Hsin Jung ^c   Elowitz, Michael B ^a,b,d  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ACETOIN; ACETOLACTATE SYNTHASE; PHOSPHATE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; RNA; SUCCINATE COENZYME A LIGASE; GLUCOSE; MALIC ACID; MALIC ACID DERIVATIVE; OXOGLUTARATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CARBON METABOLISM; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PH; POPULATION; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL CLONE; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DRUG EFFECT; FERMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHARMACOLOGY; TIME LAPSE IMAGING;

ACETIC ACID; ACETOIN; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CLONE CELLS; CULTURE MEDIA; FERMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KETOGLUTARATE DEHYDROGENASE COMPLEX; MALATES; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING;

EID: 85051972293     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.33099     Document Type: Article

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