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mSphere of Influence: How the single cell contributes to the collective

Year: 2024

Type: editorial

Abstract: ABSTRACT Gina Lewin works in the field of microbial ecology, with a focus on the human microbiota. In this mSphere of Influence article, she reflects on how two papers describing bacterial single-cell RNA-seq—“Prokaryotic single-cell RNA sequencing by in situ combinatorial indexing” by S. B. Blattman, W. Jiang, P. Oikonomou, and S. Tavazoie (Nat Microbiol 5:1192–1201, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-020-0729-6 ) and “Microbial single-cell RNA sequencing by split-pool barcoding” by A. Kuchina, L. M. Brettner, L. Paleologu, C. M. Roco, et al. (Science 371:eaba5257, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aba5257 )—impacted her work by developing a new approach to study how single cells of bacteria contribute to ecosystem-level processes.

Source: mSphere

DOI: 10.1128/msphere.00431-24

Author: Gina R. Lewin

Institution: Case Western Reserve University

Language: English

Topic: Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics

Subfield: Molecular Biology

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $3,500

Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research