Strength of bacterial adhesion on nanostructured surfaces quantified by substrate morphometry
| Autor: | Nicolas Thewes, Frank Müller, Samuel Grandthyll, Christian Spengler, Marcus Koch, Michael A. Klatt, Karin Jacobs, Markus Bischoff, Johannes Mischo, Friederike Nolle, Thomas Faidt |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Staphylococcus aureus Nanostructure Materials science Surface Properties Biofilm Force spectroscopy 02 engineering and technology Adhesion Substrate (electronics) 010402 general chemistry 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Bactericidal effect 01 natural sciences Bacterial Adhesion Anti-Bacterial Agents Nanostructures 0104 chemical sciences Biophysics Molecule General Materials Science Wafer ddc:510 0210 nano-technology Mathematics |
| Zdroj: | Nanoscale, 11 (42), 19713-19722 |
| ISSN: | 2040-3364 2040-3372 |
| DOI: | 10.22028/d291-30039 |
| Popis: | Microbial adhesion and the subsequent formation of resilient biofilms at surfaces are decisively influenced by substrate properties, such as the topography. To date, studies that quantitatively link surface topography and bacterial adhesion are scarce, as both are not straightforward to quantify. To fill this gap, surface morphometry combined with single-cell force spectroscopy was performed on surfaces with irregular topographies on the nano-scale. As surfaces, hydrophobized silicon wafers were used that were etched to exhibit surface structures in the same size range as the bacterial cell wall molecules. The surface structures were characterized by a detailed morphometric analysis based on Minkowski functionals revealing both qualitatively similar features and quantitatively different extensions. We find that as the size of the nanostructures increases, the adhesion forces decrease in a way that can be quantified by the area of the surface that is available for the tethering of cell wall molecules. In addition, we observe a bactericidal effect, which is more pronounced on substrates with taller structures but does not influence adhesion. Our results can be used for a targeted development of 3D-structured materials for/against bio-adhesion. Moreover, the morphometric analysis can serve as a future gold standard for characterizing a broad spectrum of material structures. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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