Toward Development of an Autonomous Network of Bacteria-Based Delivery Systems (BacteriaBots): Spatiotemporally High-Throughput Characterization of Bacterial Quorum-Sensing Response

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• 作者：Ali Sahari ; Mahama A. Traore ; Ann M. Stevens ; Birgit E. Scharf ; Bahareh Behkam
• 刊名：Analytical Chemistry
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：December 2, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：86
• 期：23
• 页码：11489-11493
• 全文大小：295K
• ISSN：1520-6882

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Characterization of bacterial innate and engineered cooperative behavior, regulated through chemical signaling in a process known as quorum sensing, is critical to development of a myriad of bacteria-enabled systems including biohybrid drug delivery systems and biohybrid mobile sensor networks. Here, we demonstrate, for the first time, that microfluidic diffusive mixers can be used for spatiotemporally high-throughput characterization of bacterial quorum-sensing response. Using this batch characterization method, the quorum-sensing response in Escherichia coli MG1655, transformed with a truncated lux operon from Vibrio fischeri, in the presence of 1鈥?00 nM exogenous acyl-homoserine lactone molecules has been quantified. This method provides a rapid and facile tool for high-throughput characterization of the quorum-sensing response of genetically modified bacteria in the presence of a wide concentration range of signaling molecules with a precision of 卤0.5 nM. Furthermore, the quorum-sensing response of BacteriaBots has been characterized to determine if the results obtained from a large bacterial population can serve as a robust predictive tool for the small bacterial population attached to each BacteriaBot.