Establishment and maintenance of an axenic culture of Ettlia sp. using a species-specific approach

Autor: Chi-Yong Ahn, Ankita Srivastava, Hee-Mock Oh, Hee-Sik Kim, Hyung-Gwan Lee, Sang-Yoon Shin, Chan Yoo, Long Jin, Hyun-Joon La
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering. 20:1056-1063
ISSN: 1976-3816
1226-8372
DOI: 10.1007/s12257-015-0289-4
Popis: The establishment of an axenic culture of microalgae is essential step in understanding its physiology, genetics, and ecology. However, culturing of microalgae is usually accompanied by complex and variable associated prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms. Conventional approaches used for obtaining axenic cultures of microalgae are time-consuming and often involve difficulties in maintaining and preserving axenicity. In this study, we developed a procedure for establishing an axenic culture of Ettlia sp. YC001 and demonstrate that we maintained the axenic culture through subculture in the long term. Three sequential treatments, an antibiotic cocktail, serial dilution, and plate spreading, were applied to strain YC001 and we confirmed axenicity using molecular and physiological methods. The bacterial community associated with strain YC001 was investigated to select antibiotics for their specific elimination. The xenic culture (1 × 106 cells/mL) was treated with the antibiotic cocktail-5 (AC-5), carbendazim, chloramphenicol, imipenem, rifampicin, and tetracycline for 3 days, followed by serial dilution up to 1 × 102 cells and spreading on agar plates. The pure colonies were analyzed using denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE), fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The procedure we developed can be applied to other strains of microalgae for the establishment of axenic cultures.
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