Translational activity is uncoupled from nucleic acid content in bacterial cells of the human gut microbiota
M. Taguer, B. J. Shapiro, C. F. Maurice
The paper uses BONCAT and FACS-Seq to identify translationally active bacteria in the gut microbiota and finds they are not distinct from the whole community, while high nucleic acid content bacteria are distinct and correlate with damaged cells.
bioRxiv · Oct 5, 2020Microbiology