ArticleBioelectricity2021
Bringing Microbiology to Light: Toward All-Optical Electrophysiology in Bacteria.
Article in Bioelectricity, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Membrane Targeted Azobenzene Drives Optical Modulation of Bacterial Membrane Potential.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2023Article
- Sensitive bacterial VProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
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Abstract
The observation of neuron-like behavior in bacteria, such as the occurrence of electric spiking and extended bioelectric signaling, points to the role of membrane dynamics in prokaryotes. Electrophysiology of bacteria, however, has been overlooked for long time, due to the difficulties in monitoring bacterial bioelectric phenomena with those probing techniques that are commonly used for eukaryotes. Optical technologies can allow a paradigm shift in the field of electrophysiology of bacteria, as they would permit to elicit and monitor signaling rapidly, remotely, and with high spatiotemporal precision. In this perspective, we discuss about the potentiality of light interrogation methods in microbiology, encouraging the development of all-optical electrophysiology of bacteria.
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