PMID- 34600998 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20211203 LR - 20211214 IS - 1879-1026 (Electronic) IS - 0048-9697 (Linking) VI - 806 IP - Pt 2 DP - 2022 Feb 1 TI - When FLOW-FISH met FACS: Combining multiparametric, dynamic approaches for microbial single-cell research in the total environment. PG - 150682 LID - S0048-9697(21)05760-0 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150682 [doi] AB - In environmental microbiology, the ability to assess, in a high-throughput way, single-cells within microbial communities is key to understand their heterogeneity. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) uses fluorescently labeled oligonucleotide probes to detect, identify, and quantify single cells of specific taxonomic groups. The combination of Flow Cytometry (FLOW) with FISH (FLOW-FISH) enables high-throughput quantification of complex whole cell populations, which when associated with fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) enables sorting of target microorganisms. These sorted cells may be investigated in many ways, for instance opening new avenues for cytomics at a single-cell scale. In this review, an overview of FISH and FLOW methodologies is provided, addressing conventional methods, signal amplification approaches, common fluorophores for cell physiology parameters evaluation, and model variation techniques as well. The coupling of FLOW-FISH-FACS is explored in the context of different downstream applications of sorted cells. Current and emerging applications in environmental microbiology to outline the interactions and processes of complex microbial communities within soil, water, animal microbiota, polymicrobial biofilms, and food samples, are described. CI - Copyright (c) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Pereira, Andre C AU - Pereira AC AD - Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (cE3c), Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal; Biosystems & Integrative Sciences Institute (BioISI), Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal. FAU - Tenreiro, Ana AU - Tenreiro A AD - Biosystems & Integrative Sciences Institute (BioISI), Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal. FAU - Cunha, Monica V AU - Cunha MV AD - Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (cE3c), Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal; Biosystems & Integrative Sciences Institute (BioISI), Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal. Electronic address: mscunha@fc.ul.pt. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Review DEP - 20210930 PL - Netherlands TA - Sci Total Environ JT - The Science of the total environment JID - 0330500 SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Environmental Microbiology MH - Flow Cytometry MH - In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence MH - *Microbiota OTO - NOTNLM OT - Environmental microbiology OT - FACS OT - FISH OT - Flow cytometry OT - Single-cell COIS- Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. EDAT- 2021/10/04 06:00 MHDA- 2021/12/15 06:00 CRDT- 2021/10/03 20:39 PHST- 2021/08/14 00:00 [received] PHST- 2021/09/22 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2021/09/26 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2021/10/04 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/12/15 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2021/10/03 20:39 [entrez] AID - S0048-9697(21)05760-0 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150682 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Sci Total Environ. 2022 Feb 1;806(Pt 2):150682. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150682. Epub 2021 Sep 30.