AUTHOR=Fernández-Fernández Rocío , López-Igual Rocío , Casadesús Josep , Sánchez-Romero María Antonia 

TITLE=Analysis of Salmonella lineage-specific traits upon cell sorting

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

VOLUME=13

YEAR=2023

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/cellular-and-infection-microbiology/articles/10.3389/fcimb.2023.1146070

DOI=10.3389/fcimb.2023.1146070

ISSN=2235-2988

ABSTRACT=<p>Microbial cell individuality is receiving increasing interest in the scientific community. Individual cells within clonal populations exhibit noticeable phenotypic heterogeneity. The advent of fluorescent protein technology and advances in single-cell analysis has revealed phenotypic cell variant in bacterial populations. This heterogeneity is evident in a wide range of phenotypes, for example, individual cells display variable degrees of gene expression and survival under selective conditions and stresses, and can exhibit differing propensities to host interactions. Last few years, numerous cell sorting approaches have been employed for resolving the properties of bacterial subpopulations. This review provides an overview of applications of cell sorting to analyze <italic>Salmonella</italic> lineage-specific traits, including bacterial evolution studies, gene expression analysis, response to diverse cellular stresses and characterization of diverse bacterial phenotypic variants.</p>