A bacterial reporter panel for the detection and classification of antibiotic substances.
Microb Biotechnol
; 5(4): 536-48, 2012 Jul.
Article
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-22385678
ABSTRACT
The ever-growing use of pharmaceutical compounds, including antibacterial substances, poses a substantial pollution load on the environment. Such compounds can compromise water quality, contaminate soils, livestock and crops, enhance resistance of microorganisms to antibiotic substances, and hamper human health. We report the construction of a novel panel of genetically engineered Escherichia coli reporter strains for the detection and classification of antibiotic substances. Each of these strains harbours a plasmid that carries a fusion of a selected gene promoter to bioluminescence (luxCDABE) reporter genes and an alternative tryptophan auxotrophy-based non-antibiotic selection system. The bioreporter panel was tested for sensitivity and responsiveness to diverse antibiotic substances by monitoring bioluminescence as a function of time and of antibiotic concentrations. All of the tested antibiotics were detected by the panel, which displayed different response patterns for each substance. These unique responses were analysed by several algorithms that enabled clustering the compounds according to their functional properties, and allowed the classification of unknown antibiotic substances with a high degree of accuracy and confidence.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Técnicas Biossensoriais
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Poluentes Ambientais
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Escherichia coli
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Antibacterianos
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Microb Biotechnol
Ano de publicação:
2012
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Israel