Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29443042›Full record

ArticleJournal of visualized experiments : JoVE2018

Single-cell Microfluidic Analysis of Bacillus subtilis.

Matthew T Cabeen, Richard Losick

Open access · greenAbstract readVideo-Audio Media
In one paragraph

Article in Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 44% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Guideline
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Review
  6. Review
  7. The Trends of Single-Cell Analysis: A Global Study.BioMed research international · 2020
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Matthew T CabeenDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Oklahoma State University; matthew.cabeen@okstate.edu.
Richard LosickDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University; losick@mcb.harvard.edu.
Harvard University · USOklahoma State University · US

Funding

Role of RNA Polymerase in Bacterial DifferentionR01GM018568 · NIGMS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI LOSICK, RICHARD MARC · 1985 to 2018
$11.5M
ROLE OF RNA POLYMERASE IN BACTERIAL DIFFERENTIATIONR37GM018568 · NIGMS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI LOSICK, RICHARD MARC · 1990 to 1999
–
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM018568NIGMS NIH HHS R37 GM018568
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microfluidic technology overcomes many of the limitations to traditional analytical methods in microbiology. Unlike bulk-culture methods, it offers single-cell resolution and long observation times spanning hundreds of generations; unlike agarose pad-based microscopy, it has uniform growth conditions that can be tightly controlled. Because the continuous flow of growth medium isolates the cells in a microfluidic device from unpredictable variations in the local chemical environment caused by cell growth and metabolism, authentic changes in gene expression and cell growth in response to specific stimuli can be more confidently observed. Bacillus subtilis is used here as a model bacterial species to demonstrate a "mother machine"-type method for cellular analysis. We show how to construct and plumb a microfluidic device, load it with cells, initiate microscopic imaging, and expose cells to a stimulus by switching from one growth medium to another. A stress-responsive reporter is used as an example to reveal the type of data that may be obtained by this method. We also briefly discuss further applications of this method for other types of experiments, such as analysis of bacterial sporulation.

Indexed as

Bacillus subtilisMicrofluidic Analytical TechniquesSingle-Cell Analysis

Identifiers

PMID29443042
PMCPMC5908703
OpenAlexW2784712281

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.