Fig. 3: Heterogeneous gene expression in E. coli grown in minimal medium.
From: Probe-based bacterial single-cell RNA sequencing predicts toxin regulation
a, Heatmap of marker gene expression (z-score of log-transformed values) from 3,315 individual E. coli cells grown aerobically in minimal M9 media organized into 10 clusters. b, UMAP two-dimensional representation of the 10 cell clusters from aerobic M9 culture conditions. c, Flagellar components are heterogeneously expressed in aerobic M9 media, a key flagellar gene (flagellin, fliC), is preferentially expressed by cells in cluster 1. d, The heterogeneous presence of flagella in the population is confirmed by flagellar staining.
