Ruhl, Stefan and Eidt, Andreas and Melzl, Holger and Reischl, Udo and Cisar, John O. (2014) Probing of Microbial Biofilm Communities for Coadhesion Partners. APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY, 80 (21). pp. 6583-6590. ISSN 0099-2240, 1098-5336
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Investigations of interbacterial adhesion in dental plaque development are currently limited by the lack of a convenient assay to screen the multitude of species present in oral biofilms. To overcome this limitation, we developed a solid-phase fluorescence-based screening method to detect and identify coadhesive partner organisms in mixed-species biofilms. The applicability of this method was demonstrated using coaggregating strains of type 2 fimbrial adhesin-bearing actinomyces and receptor polysaccharide (RPS)-bearing streptococci. Specific adhesin/receptor-mediated coadhesion was detected by overlaying bacterial strains immobilized to a nitrocellulose membrane with a suspended, fluorescein-labeled bacterial partner strain. Coadhesion was comparable regardless of which cell type was labeled and which was immobilized. Formaldehyde treatment of bacteria, either in suspension or immobilized on nitrocellulose, abolished actinomyces type 2 fimbrial adhesin but not streptococcal RPS function, thereby providing a simple method for assigning complementary adhesins and glycan receptors to members of a coadhering pair. The method's broader applicability was shown by overlaying colony lifts of dental plaque biofilm cultures with fluorescein-labeled strains of type 2 fimbriated Actinomyces naeslundii or RPS-bearing Streptococcus oralis. Prominent coadhesion partners included not only streptococci and actinomyces, as expected, but also other bacteria not identified in previous coaggregation studies, such as adhesin- or receptor-bearing strains of Neisseria pharyngitis, Rothia dentocariosa, and Kingella oralis. The ability to comprehensively screen complex microbial communities for coadhesion partners of specific microorganisms opens a new approach in studies of dental plaque and other mixed-species biofilms.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | CAPNOCYTOPHAGA-OCHRACEA ATCC-33596; STREPTOCOCCUS-SANGUIS H-1; PLATE FLOW CHAMBER; ACTINOMYCES-NAESLUNDII; ORAL MICROBIOME; QUANTITATIVE METHOD; CO-ADHESION; IN-VITRO; COAGGREGATION; BACTERIA; |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Hygiene Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Zahnerhaltung und Parodontologie |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Aug 2019 09:18 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Aug 2019 09:18 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/9291 |
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