Probing the active fraction of soil microbiomes using BONCAT-FACS

Standard DNA-based analyses of microbial communities cannot distinguish between active microbes and dead or dormant cells. Here, Couradeau et al. use BONCAT (bioorthogonal non-canonical amino acid tagging), flow cytometry, and 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing to identify active microbial cells in s...

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Main Authors: Estelle Couradeau, Joelle Sasse, Danielle Goudeau, Nandita Nath, Terry C. Hazen, Ben P. Bowen, Romy Chakraborty, Rex R. Malmstrom, Trent R. Northen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10542-0