Sabaeifard Parastoo, Abdi-Ali Ahya, Soudi Mohammad Reza, Dinarvand Rasoul
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran.
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran.
J Microbiol Methods. 2014 Oct;105:134-40. doi: 10.1016/j.mimet.2014.07.024. Epub 2014 Jul 30.
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of the most important pathogenic bacteria related to biofilm infections. Due to the biofilm multi-drug resistance, methods of biofilm formation enumeration are of interest for assessment of efficient drug regimen development for biofilm inhibition or eradication. There are many different assay methods to determine the biofilm formation, using vital or non-vital dyes. The primary aim of the current study was to develop an assay using a member of tetrazolium salts family, 2,3,5-triphenyl-tetrazolium chloride (TTC), for detection of P. aeruginosa biofilm formation in 96-well microtiter plates and also a method of Minimum Biofilm Inhibitory Concentration (MBIC) determination of antibiotics against P. aeruginosa PAO1. Furthermore, the assay was optimized for TTC concentration, wavelength and period of incubation for 4 different antibiotics. The optimized condition was then compared with two other prevalent methods: the crystal violet (CV) assay and the 2,3-bis (2-methoxy-4-nitro-5-sulfophenly)-5-[(phenylamino)carbonyl]-2H-tetrazolium hydroxide (XTT) assay. In general, the optimized TTC assay (0.5% TTC, 6h of incubation and absorbance measurement at 405nm for biofilm assay and 1% TTC, 5h of incubation and absorbance measurement at 490nm for MBIC determination) distinguished between biofilms formed by different concentrations of bacteria and also was able to detect lower amounts of biofilm formed in contrast to the other two assay methods suggesting that TTC assay is more sensitive and also less expensive than other vital staining methods.
铜绿假单胞菌是与生物膜感染相关的最重要的病原菌之一。由于生物膜具有多重耐药性,生物膜形成计数方法对于评估抑制或根除生物膜的有效药物方案的开发具有重要意义。有许多不同的检测方法可用于确定生物膜的形成,这些方法使用活细胞或死细胞染料。本研究的主要目的是开发一种使用四氮唑盐家族成员2,3,5-三苯基氯化四氮唑(TTC)的检测方法,用于检测96孔微量滴定板中铜绿假单胞菌生物膜的形成,同时开发一种测定抗生素对铜绿假单胞菌PAO1的最低生物膜抑制浓度(MBIC)的方法。此外,针对4种不同抗生素,对TTC浓度、波长和孵育时间进行了检测方法的优化。然后将优化后的条件与另外两种常用方法进行比较:结晶紫(CV)检测法和2,3-双(2-甲氧基-4-硝基-5-磺基苯基)-5-[(苯基氨基)羰基]-2H-四氮唑氢氧化合物(XTT)检测法。总体而言,优化后的TTC检测法(生物膜检测采用0.5% TTC、孵育6小时并在405nm处测量吸光度,MBIC测定采用1% TTC、孵育5小时并在490nm处测量吸光度)能够区分不同细菌浓度形成的生物膜,并且与其他两种检测方法相比,能够检测到更低量的生物膜形成,这表明TTC检测法比其他活细胞染色方法更灵敏且成本更低。