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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2015

Use of Hybridization Chain Reaction-Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization To Track Gene Expression by Both Partners during Initiation of Symbiosis.

K Nikolakakis, E Lehnert, M J McFall-Ngai, E G Ruby

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

K NikolakakisDepartment of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
E LehnertDepartment of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
M J McFall-NgaiDepartment of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA mjmcfallngai@wisc.edu egruby@wisc.edu.
E G RubyDepartment of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA mjmcfallngai@wisc.edu egruby@wisc.edu.
University of Wisconsin–Madison · US

Funding

VIBRIO VIRULENCE DETERMINANTS IN A BENIGN COLONIZATIONR01RR012294 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI RUBY, EDWARD G · 1996 to 2011
$6.4M
Vibrio fischeri as a Model for Bacterial ColonizationR37AI050661 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA · PI MARGARET J MC FALL-NGAI, Edward G Ruby · 2018 to 2026
$5.4M
Vibrio fischeri as a model of Bacterial ColonizationR01AI050661 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI MC FALL-NGAI, MARGARET J, RUBY, EDWARD G · 2002 to 2016
$5.0M
Vibrio Virulence Determinants in a Benign ColonizationR01OD011024 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI MC FALL-NGAI, MARGARET J, RUBY, EDWARD G · 2012 to 2020
$3.9M
Chemotactic Cues in the Symbiosis Between Vibrio fischeri and Euprymna scolopesF32GM112214 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI NIKOLAKAKIS, KIEL · 2014 to 2016
$112k
NCRR NIH HHS R01 RR012294NIAID NIH HHS AI050661NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI050661NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI050661NIGMS NIH HHS F32 GM112214NIGMS NIH HHS F32GM112214NIH HHS OD11024NIH HHS R01 OD011024
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The establishment of a productive symbiosis between Euprymna scolopes, the Hawaiian bobtail squid, and its luminous bacterial symbiont, Vibrio fischeri, is mediated by transcriptional changes in both partners. A key challenge to unraveling the steps required to successfully initiate this and many other symbiotic associations is characterization of the timing and location of these changes. We report on the adaptation of hybridization chain reaction-fluorescent in situ hybridization (HCR-FISH) to simultaneously probe the spatiotemporal regulation of targeted genes in both E. scolopes and V. fischeri. This method revealed localized, transcriptionally coregulated epithelial cells within the light organ that responded directly to the presence of bacterial cells while, at the same time, provided a sensitive means to directly show regulated gene expression within the symbiont population. Thus, HCR-FISH provides a new approach for characterizing habitat transition in bacteria and for discovering host tissue responses to colonization.

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SymbiosisAliivibrio fischeriAnimalsBacterial ProteinsDecapodiformesIn Situ Hybridization, FluorescenceBacterial Proteins

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PMID25956763
PMCPMC4551195
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