Single cell biotechnology to shed a light on biological 'dark matter' in nature.
Single cell biotechnology to shed a light on biological 'dark matter' in nature.
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DOI:
10.1111/1751-7915.12249
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发表时间:
2015-01
影响因子:
5.7
通讯作者:
Xu J
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作者:
Huang WE;Song Y;Xu J
It is estimated that over 99% of microorganisms have not as yet been cultivated (Whitman et al., 1998). These uncultured microbes are the ‘dark matter’of the microbiological world and play important roles in natural ecosystems and the human microbiome (Lagier et al., 2012; Rinke et al., 2013); however, their ecological role and function remain largely elusive (Lasken, 2012; Li et al., 2012a, b). Furthermore, these uncultured bacteria represent a significant, yet largely untapped, genetic resource for use in synthetic biology for the provision of novel bioparts or biobricks, in medicine for new drug biosynthesis, in industry for robust biocatalysts and biofuel synthesis, and in environmental bioremediation for new biodegradation genes.Metagenomics circumvents the cultivation issue by extracting the total DNA from an environmental sample, and directly sequencing it (Handelsman, 2004), and this approach has revealed an unprecedented view of the diversity and complexity of microbial communities. However, such approaches are usually unable to define or validate the specific role of individual members of the usually complex microbiota. Single cell biotechnology, which characterizes microbial cells in their native microbiota one by one, offers a new approach to study uncultured bacteria. An ideal platform is to integrate accurate and ‘contamination-free’single cell sorting tools with powerful next-generation DNA sequencing. This will usher
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.95.12.6578
发表时间:
1998-06-09
影响因子:
11.1
作者:
Whitman, WB;Coleman, DC;Wiebe, WJ
通讯作者:
Wiebe, WJ
影响因子:
3.6
作者:
Huang, Wei E.;Ude, Susanne;Spiers, Andrew J.
通讯作者:
Spiers, Andrew J.
影响因子:
7.4
作者:
Wang, Yun;Ji, Yuetong;Huang, Wei E.
通讯作者:
Huang, Wei E.
影响因子:
3.3
作者:
Huang, Wei E.;Ward, Andrew D.;Whiteley, Andrew S.
通讯作者:
Whiteley, Andrew S.
影响因子:
3.6
作者:
Huang, Wei E.;Bailey, Mark J.;Spiers, Andrew J.
通讯作者:
Spiers, Andrew J.