Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology Protocols Single-Cell and Single-Molecule Methods /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: McGenity, Terry J. (Editor), Timmis, Kenneth N. (Editor), Nogales, Balbina. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:Springer Protocols Handbooks,
Subjects:
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49131-7
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Single cell biotechnology for uncultured microorganisms
  • Single-cell cultivation in microfluidic devices
  • Single-cell bacterial bioreporter assays to measure hydrocarbons
  • Whole genome amplification of single bacterial cells
  • Detection of specific mRNA molecules in hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria
  • Localisation of proteins within intact bacterial cells using fluorescent protein fusions
  • Raman-FISH
  • Single-cell metabolomics
  • Marrying single molecules to single cells: Protocols for the study of the bacterial proto-ring components essential for division
  • Single cell biotechnology for uncultured microorganisms
  • Single cell and systems biology tools for biofuel production
  • Detection of protein-synthesizing microorganisms in the environment via bioorthogonal non-canonical amino acid tagging (BONCAT)
  • Flow cytometric determination of microbial abundances and its use to obtain indices of community structure and relative activity
  • Protocols for visualizing horizontal gene transfer in Gram-negative bacteria through natural competence. .