Screening for microorganisms with specific characteristics by flow cytometry and single-cell sorting.

Flow cytometry used in combination with single-cell sorting is a powerful technique for the identification and isolation of microbial cells with particular characteristics, especially when such cells grow more slowly than other cells in a large heterogeneous population. Many applications of flow cytometry with cell sorting, originally used by specialists studying mammalian cells, have been modified so that microorganisms also can be evaluated. The methods can now be used more widely because of the increasing availability of the expensive equipment. There are means for the fluorescence detection of a wide variety of properties, such as amounts of various cell components, specific sequences of peptides and nucleotides, cell functions, and enzyme activities. From the extensive literature, representative reports of an assortment of uses of flow cytometry with cell sorting are reviewed in this article, intended to introduce the technique and its many advantages to microbiologists.

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