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Microtiter plate with built-in oxygen sensors: a novel approach to investigate the dynamics of Pseudomonas aeruginosa growth suppression in the presence of divalent cations and antibiotics

Almatrood, W, Nakouti, I and Hobbs, G (2022) Microtiter plate with built-in oxygen sensors: a novel approach to investigate the dynamics of Pseudomonas aeruginosa growth suppression in the presence of divalent cations and antibiotics. Archives of Microbiology, 204 (6). ISSN 0302-8933

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Abstract

The depletion of dissolved oxygen in a defined synthetic medium can be measured in real time, using a micro-well plate format, associated with a fluorescent plate reader. This technology is appropriate for investigating the effect of antibiotics on cell kinetics because there is a direct correlation between the latter and the amount of dissolved oxygen in the medium of an assay. In this study, the metabolic activity of the opportunistic human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA01 was investigated using the OxoPlate OP96U optical sensor technology. The response of P. aeruginosa to aminoglycoside antibiotics when Ca2+ and Mg 2+ ions are present in the Evans defined synthetic medium was measured. The results revealed that the effect of antibiotics on P. aeruginosa is influenced by the concentration of divalent cations present in the test medium, although the efficiency of Ca2+ in supressing antibiotic activity was found to be greater than that of Mg2+. By comparison to tobramycin, the effect of amikacin is largely inhibited by the Ca2+and Mg2+concentrations. The study results underscore that the reliability of the observation of growth inhibitors is enhanced by the oxygen consumption measurements. Thus, the OxoPlate OP96U system is proven to be an accurate method to test the effectiveness of antibiotic treatments against P.aeruginosa

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: 0605 Microbiology; 1108 Medical Microbiology; Microbiology
Subjects: R Medicine > RM Therapeutics. Pharmacology
R Medicine > RS Pharmacy and materia medica
Divisions: Pharmacy & Biomolecular Sciences
Publisher: Springer
SWORD Depositor: A Symplectic
Date Deposited: 10 May 2022 08:20
Last Modified: 10 May 2022 08:20
DOI or ID number: 10.1007/s00203-022-02877-y
URI: https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/16786
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