期刊
JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL NANOTECHNOLOGY
卷 8, 期 5, 页码 770-778出版社
AMER SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1166/jbn.2012.1447
关键词
Caffeine; Phenolic Uncoupler; Chloramphenicol; E. coli; Mixture Toxicity; Micro Droplets; Microfluidics; Bolographic Maps
资金
- German Federal Environmental Foundation [DBU 20009/009]
- BMBF/VDI/VDE-IT (OPTIMI project) [KFZ-16SV3701]
A droplet-based microfluidic technique for the fast generation of three dimensional concentration spaces within nanoliter segments was introduced. The technique was applied for the evaluation of the effect of two selected antibiotic substances on the toxicity and activation of bacterial growth by caffeine. Therefore a three-dimensional concentration space was completely addressed by generating large sequences with about 1150 well separated microdroplets containing 216 different combinations of concentrations. To evaluate the toxicity of the ternary mixtures a time-resolved miniaturized optical double endpoint detection unit using a microflow-through fluorimeter and a two channel microflow-through photometer was used for the simultaneous analysis of changes on the endogenous cellular fluorescence signal and on the cell density of E. coli cultivated inside 500 nL microfluid segments. Both endpoints supplied similar results for the dose related cellular response. Strong non-linear combination effects, concentration dependent stimulation and the formation of activity summits on bolographic maps were determined. The results reflect a complex response of growing bacterial cultures in dependence on the combined effectors. A strong caffeine induced enhancement of bacterial growth was found at sublethal chloramphenicol and sublethal 2,4-dinitrophenol concentrations. The reliability of the method was proved by a high redundancy of fluidic experiments. The results indicate the importance of multi-parameter investigations for toxicological studies and prove the potential of the microsegmented flow technique for such requirements.
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