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APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 71, Issue 10, Pages 6235-6240Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.10.6235-6240.2005
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The effect of surface electrochemical polarization on the growth of cells of Pseudontonasfluorescens (ATCC 17552) on gold electrodes has been examined. Potentials positive or negative to the potential of zero charge (PZC) of gold were applied, and these resulted in changes in cell morphology, size at cell division, time to division, and biofilm structure. At -0.2 V (Ag/AgCl-3 M NaCl), cells elongated at a rate of up to 0.19 mu m min(-1), rendering daughter cells that reached up to 3.8 mu m immediately after division. The doubling time for the entire population, estimated from the increment in the fraction of surface covered by bacteria, was 82 +/- 7 min. Eight-hour-old biofilms at -0.2 V were composed of large cells distributed in expanded mushroom-like microcolonies that protruded several micrometers in the solution. A different behavior was observed under positive polarization. At an applied potential of 0.5 V, the doubling time of the population was 103 +/- 8 min, cells elongated at a lower rate (up to 0.08 mu m min(-1)), rendering shorter daughters (2.5 +/- 0.5 mu m) after division, although the duplication times were virtually the same at all potentials. Biotilms grown under this positive potential were composed of short cells distributed in a large number of compact microcolonies. These were flatter than those grown at -0.2 V or at the PZC and were pyramidal in shape. Polarization effects on cell growth and biofilm structure resembled those previously reported as produced by changes in the nutritional level of the culture medium.
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