A Peg Plate Biofilm Assay for Screening Antibacterial Agents
Published: February 29, 2024
Abstract
Source: Dalecki, A. G., et al. Targeting Biofilm Associated Staphylococcus aureus Using Resazurin Based Drug-susceptibility Assay. J. Vis. Exp. (2016)
This video demonstrates an assay for screening antimicrobial compounds that efficiently eliminate biofilms using a peg-plate. The methodology monitors the biofilm's metabolic state after treatment with antimicrobial compounds, facilitating the determination of the minimum biofilm eradication concentration.
Protocol
1. Biofilm Initiation Grow a culture of biofilm-producing organisms in a nutrient-rich medium. Inoculate Staphylococcus aureus strain Newman in 10 ml of Mueller-Hinton medium from a glycerol stock. Perform all work involving handling of S. aureus with gloves and within a biosafety cabinet. Incubate for 16 hr at 37 °C on a rotary shaker (100-200 rpm). Determine OD600 of the culture using a spectrophotometer and a st…
Representative Results
Figure 1. Challenge plate layout. Example layout of challenge plate accommodating parallel testing of four compounds in triplicate at six distinct concentrations. Untreated and sterility controls are also included. The layout design supports convenient in-plate preparation of serial dilutions using a multichannel pipet. Concentrations are in µM.
Declarações
The authors have nothing to disclose.
Materials
| Mueller-Hinton Medium | Oxoid | CM0405 | Follow recommendations of manufacturer |
| RPMI-medium | Corning | 17-105-CV | |
| CRPMI | Ref 9 | RPMI-1640 medium chelexed for 1 hr with Chelex 100 resin and then supplemented with 10% unchelexed RPMI-1640 | |
| Chelex 100 Resin | Bio Rad | 142-2822 | |
| MBEC-plates | Innovotech | 19111 | |
| Resazurin Sodium Salt | Sigma | R7017 | 800 µg/ml in DI water Filter sterile |
| Micro Plate Shaking Platform | Heidolph Titramax 1000 | ||
| Cytation 3 Plate Reader | Biotek | ||
| Gen5 software | Biotek | Recording and analysis of resazurin conversion | |
| Neocuproine | Sigma | N1501 | Prepare 10 mM stock in 100% Ethanol, store at -80 ºC |
| Copper sulfate | Acros Organics | 7758-99-8 | Prepare a 100 mM stock solution in water, store at 4 ºC |
| Cu-Neocuproine | Self-Made | Generated by mixing equal molarities of neocuproine and copper sulfate. Mix was diluted in CRPMI medium to desired concentration. | |
| Gentamicin | Sigma | G3632-1G |
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A Peg Plate Biofilm Assay for Screening Antibacterial Agents. J. Vis. Exp. (Pending Publication), e21980, doi: (2024).