Custom fabrication of biomass containment devices using 3-D printing enables bacterial growth analyses with complex insoluble substrates
| Autor: | Cassandra E. Nelson, Nina R. Beri, Jeffrey G. Gardner |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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0301 basic medicine
Microbiology (medical) 030106 microbiology Xylan (coating) Biomass Nanotechnology Substrate (printing) Bacterial growth Lignin Zea mays Microbiology Cellvibrio 03 medical and health sciences chemistry.chemical_compound Cellulose Molecular Biology Cellvibrio japonicus Microbial Viability Bacteria biology Sterilization Equipment Design Stainless Steel biology.organism_classification Nylons 030104 developmental biology Corn stover Solubility chemistry Chemical engineering Spectrophotometry Reagent Mutation Printing Three-Dimensional Carbohydrate Metabolism Equipment Contamination Xylans |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Microbiological Methods. 130:136-143 |
| ISSN: | 0167-7012 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.mimet.2016.09.013 |
| Popis: | Physiological studies of recalcitrant polysaccharide degradation are challenging for several reasons, one of which is the difficulty in obtaining a reproducibly accurate real-time measurement of bacterial growth using insoluble substrates. Current methods suffer from several problems including (i) high background noise due to the insoluble material interspersed with cells, (ii) high consumable and reagent cost and (iii) significant time delay between sampling and data acquisition. A customizable substrate and cell separation device would provide an option to study bacterial growth using optical density measurements. To test this hypothesis we used 3-D printing to create biomass containment devices that allow interaction between insoluble substrates and microbial cells but do not interfere with spectrophotometer measurements. Evaluation of materials available for 3-D printing indicated that UV-cured acrylic plastic was the best material, being superior to nylon or stainless steel when examined for heat tolerance, reactivity, and ability to be sterilized. Cost analysis of the 3-D printed devices indicated they are a competitive way to quantitate bacterial growth compared to viable cell counting or protein measurements, and experimental conditions were scalable over a 100-fold range. The presence of the devices did not alter growth phenotypes when using either soluble substrates or insoluble substrates. We applied biomass containment to characterize growth of Cellvibrio japonicus on authentic lignocellulose (non-pretreated corn stover), and found physiological evidence that xylan is a significant nutritional source despite an abundance of cellulose present. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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