Staining Bacteria
2015-01-13azim58 - Staining Bacteria
Dyes to Stain Bacteria
Here are some dyes and some information
https://www.dojindo.com/Protocol/Bacterial_cell_staining.pdf
Note that DAPI can be used, but I'm not sure if it can be cultured
afterward
Perhaps mCherry or SYTO BC (stains nucleic acids) could be used.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080609110528AAHLS7m
http://aem.asm.org/content/71/8/4679.full?view=long&pmid=16085863
Perhaps Qdots could be used
https://lists.purdue.edu/pipermail/cytometry/2005-June/028972.html
thiazole orange may be able to be used
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16999759
FDG may be used. However, this necessitates cell permeabilization. Note
that in this paper they also encapsulate single cells in agarose
microbeads 20 to 30 microns in diameter
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2128011
they do single cell genomic studies in this paper
http://www.mendeley.com/research/specific-sorting-single-bacterial-cells-mi
crofabricated-fluorescenceactivated-cell-sorting-tyramide-signal-amplificat
ion-fluorescence-situ-hybridization/