Journal
VIRULENCE
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages 1329-1336Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/21505594.2020.1827885
Keywords
Mixed infection; intermicrobial interaction; live imaging; morphogenesis; iron metabolism; Pseudomonas; Aspergillus
Categories
Funding
- Texas 4000 Distinguished Professorship for Cancer Research
- Flatley Foundation [CIMR 3770]
- NIH-NCI Cancer CORE Support [16672]
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Pseudomonas aeruginosa(PA) andAspergillus fumigatus(AF) chronically colonize the airways of patients with cystic fibrosis or chronic immunosuppression and mutually affect each other's pathogenesis. Here, we evaluated IncuCyte time-lapse imaging and NeuroTrack(TM)(NT) analysis (Wurster et al., 2019, mBio) as a toolbox to study mycelial expansion and morphogenesis of AF during interaction with PA. Co-incubation of AF with supernatant filtrates of wild-type (WT) PA strains strongly inhibited hyphal growth and branching. Consonant with prior metabolic studies, pyoverdine-deficient PA mutants had significantly attenuated inhibitory capacity. Accordingly, purified PA products pyoverdine and pyocyanin suppressed mycelial expansion of AF in a concentration-dependent way. Using fluorescence-guided tracking of GFP-AF293 mycelia during co-culture with live WT PA cells, we found significant inoculum-dependent mycelial growth inhibition and robust precision of the NT algorithm. Collectively, our experiments position IncuCyte NT as an efficient platform for longitudinal analysis of fungal growth and morphogenesis during bacterial co-infection.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available