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Metabolic interactions in communities allow bacteria to influence our daily life. Controlling these communities requires knowledge of their metabolic interactions. Feeding microbial communities with substrates labeled with stable isotopes and analysis of their enriched biomolecules by isotope ratio mass spectrometry is a powerful method for unraveling the dynamics of metabolic community interactions. Biomarkers but also cell sorting has been used to discern between bacterial members.
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Wolf-Rainer Abraham 1972–1976 Chemiestudium, 1979 Promotion an der TU Berlin bei Prof. Dr. F. Bohlmann. Seit 1980 am heutigen Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung, dort Leiter der Arbeitsgruppe Chemische Mikrobiologie.
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Abraham, WR. Stabile Isotope erlauben Einblicke in Bakteriengemeinschaften. Biospektrum 19, 505–507 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12268-013-0347-4
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