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ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2017

Production of Superoxide in Bacteria Is Stress- and Cell State-Dependent: A Gating-Optimized Flow Cytometry Method that Minimizes ROS Measurement Artifacts with Fluorescent Dyes.

Megan E McBee, Yok H Chionh, Mariam L Sharaf, Peiying Ho, Maggie W L Cai, Peter C Dedon

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Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 75 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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75 citing papers in PubMed, 130 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Megan E McBeeInfectious Disease Interdisciplinary Research Group, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Singapore, Singapore.
Yok H ChionhInfectious Disease Interdisciplinary Research Group, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and TechnologySingapore, Singapore; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of SingaporeSingapore, Singapore.
Mariam L SharafInfectious Disease Interdisciplinary Research Group, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Singapore, Singapore.
Peiying HoInfectious Disease Interdisciplinary Research Group, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Singapore, Singapore.
Maggie W L CaiInfectious Disease Interdisciplinary Research Group, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and TechnologySingapore, Singapore; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of SingaporeSingapore, Singapore.
Peter C DedonInfectious Disease Interdisciplinary Research Group, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and TechnologySingapore, Singapore; Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CambridgeMA, USA.
Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology · SG

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in microbial metabolism and stress response has emerged as a major theme in microbiology and infectious disease. Reactive fluorescent dyes have the potential to advance the study of ROS in the complex intracellular environment, especially for high-content and high-throughput analyses. However, current dye-based approaches to measuring intracellular ROS have the potential for significant artifacts. Here, we describe a robust platform for flow cytometric quantification of ROS in bacteria using fluorescent dyes, with ROS measurements in 10s-of-1000s of individual cells under a variety of conditions. False positives and variability among sample types (e.g., bacterial species, stress conditions) are reduced with a flexible four-step gating scheme that accounts for side- and forward-scattered light (morphological changes), background fluorescence, DNA content, and dye uptake to identify cells producing ROS. Using CellROX Green dye with

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antibioticsbacteriaflow cytometryoxidative stressreactive oxygen species (ROS)starvation

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