Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China.
Key Laboratory of Marine Chemistry Theory and Technology, Ministry of Education, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266100, China.
Biosens Bioelectron. 2023 Nov 1;239:115626. doi: 10.1016/j.bios.2023.115626. Epub 2023 Aug 21.
It is difficult to show microbial growth kinetics online when they grow in complex matrices. We presented a novel strategy to address this challenge by developing a high-performance microbial growth analyzer (HPMGA), which employed a unique 32-channel capacitively coupled contactless conductivity detector as a sensing element and fixed with a CellStatz software. It was capable of online showing accurate and repeatable growth curves of well-dispersed and bad-dispersed microbes, whether they grew in homogeneous simple culture broth or heterogeneous complex matrices. Moreover, it could automatically report key growth kinetics parameters. In comparison to optical density (OD), plate counting and broth microdilution (BMD) methods, we demonstrated its practicability in five scenarios: 1) the illustration of the growth, growth rate, and acceleration curves of Escherichia coli (E. coli); 2) the antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) of Oxacillin against Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus); 3) the determination of Ag nanoparticle toxicity on Providencia rettgeri (P. rettgeri); 4) the characterization of milk fermentation; and 5) the enumeration of viable pathogenic Vibrio in shrimp body. Results highlighted that the HPMGA method had the advantages of universality and effectivity. This technology would significantly facilitate the routine analysis of microbial growth in many fields (biology, medicine, clinic, life, food, environment, and ecology), paving an avenue for microbiologists to achieve research goals that have been inhibited for years due to a lack of practical analytical methods.
当微生物在复杂基质中生长时,很难在线展示其生长动力学。我们提出了一种新的策略来解决这一挑战,开发了一种高性能微生物生长分析仪(HPMGA),该分析仪采用独特的 32 通道电容耦合非接触式电导检测器作为传感元件,并固定在 CellStatz 软件上。它能够在线展示均匀分散和分散不良的微生物的准确且可重复的生长曲线,无论它们是在同质简单培养液中还是异质复杂基质中生长。此外,它可以自动报告关键的生长动力学参数。与光密度(OD)、平板计数和肉汤微稀释(BMD)方法相比,我们在五个场景中证明了其实用性:1)大肠杆菌(E. coli)的生长、生长速率和加速曲线的说明;2)Oxacillin 对金黄色葡萄球菌(S. aureus)的药敏试验(AST);3)Ag 纳米颗粒对普罗维登斯菌(P. rettgeri)毒性的测定;4)牛奶发酵的表征;5)虾体内可存活致病性弧菌的计数。结果表明,HPMGA 方法具有普遍性和有效性的优点。该技术将极大地促进微生物生长在许多领域(生物学、医学、临床、生命、食品、环境和生态学)的常规分析,为微生物学家开辟了一条道路,使他们能够实现多年来因缺乏实用分析方法而受到抑制的研究目标。
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