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Infrared data obtained from bulk populations and single cells via O-PTIR spectroscopy were compared to conventional Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy in order to evaluate the reproducibility of the results achieved by all three approaches. Raman spectra acquired were concomitant with infrared data from bulk populations as well as infrared spectra collected from single cells, and were subjected to principal component analysis in order to evaluate any specific separation resulting from the isotopic incorporation. Similar clustering patterns were observed in infrared data acquired from single cells via O-PTIR spectroscopy as well as from bulk populations via FTIR and O-PTIR spectroscopies, indicating full incorporation of heavy isotopes by the bacteria. Satisfactory discrimination between unlabeled (viz. 12C14N), 13C14N- and 13C15N-labeled bacteria was also obtained using Raman spectra from bulk populations. In this report, we also discuss the limitations of O-PTIR technology to acquire Raman data from single bacterial cells (with typical dimensions of 1 \u00d7 2 \u00b5m) as well as spectral artifacts induced by thermal damage when analyzing very small amounts of biomass (a bacterium tipically weighs ~ 1 pg).<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22103928","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,22]],"date-time":"2022-05-22T07:13:57Z","timestamp":1653203637000},"page":"3928","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":34,"title":["Simultaneous Raman and Infrared Spectroscopy of Stable Isotope Labelled Escherichia coli"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9062-6298","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Cassio","family":"Lima","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre for Metabolomics Research, Department of Biochemistry and Systems Biology, Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZB, UK"}]},{"given":"Howbeer","family":"Muhamadali","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre for Metabolomics Research, Department of Biochemistry and Systems Biology, Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZB, UK"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2230-645X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Royston","family":"Goodacre","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre for Metabolomics Research, Department of Biochemistry and Systems Biology, Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZB, UK"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Diem, M. 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