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ArticleThe ISME journal2012

Rapid resonance Raman microspectroscopy to probe carbon dioxide fixation by single cells in microbial communities.

Mengqiu Li, Daniel P Canniffe, Philip J Jackson, Paul A Davison, Simon FitzGerald, Mark J Dickman, J Grant Burgess, C Neil Hunter, Wei E Huang

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Article in The ISME journal, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers.

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45citing papers in PubMed
5.3field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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45 citing papers in PubMed, 110 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Mengqiu LiDepartment of Civil and Structural Engineering, Kroto Research Institute, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
Daniel P Canniffe
Philip J Jackson
Paul A Davison
Simon FitzGerald
Mark J Dickman
J Grant Burgess
C Neil Hunter
Wei E Huang
University of Sheffield · GBHoriba (United Kingdom) · GBNewcastle University · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/G021546/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Photosynthetic microorganisms play crucial roles in aquatic ecosystems and are the major primary producers in global marine ecosystems. The discovery of new bacteria and microalgae that play key roles in CO(2) fixation is hampered by the lack of methods to identify hitherto-unculturable microorganisms. To overcome this problem we studied single microbial cells using stable-isotope probing (SIP) together with resonance Raman (RR) microspectroscopy of carotenoids, the light-absorbing pigments present in most photosynthetic microorganisms. We show that fixation of (13)CO(2) into carotenoids produces a red shift in single-cell RR (SCRR) spectra and that this SCRR-SIP technique is sufficiently sensitive to detect as little as 10% of (13)C incorporation. Mass spectrometry (MS) analysis of labelled cellular proteins verifies that the red shift in carotenoid SCRR spectra acts as a reporter of the (13)C content of single cells. Millisecond Raman imaging of cells in mixed cultures and natural seawater samples was used to identify cells actively fixing CO(2), demonstrating that the SCRR-SIP is a noninvasive method for the rapid and quantitative detection of CO(2) fixation at the single cell level in a microbial community. The SCRR-SIP technique may provide a direct method for screening environmental samples, and could help to reveal the ecophysiology of hitherto-unculturable microorganisms, linking microbial species to their ecological function in the natural environment.

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PhotosynthesisCarbon DioxideSeawaterSingle-Cell AnalysisSpectrum Analysis, RamanSynechococcusSynechocystisCarbon Dioxide

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PMID22113377
PMCPMC3309358
OpenAlexW1981495536

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