Extraction of Small Molecules from Fecal Samples and Testing of Their Activity on Microbial Physiology
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2018-04-20
[Abstract] The human body is colonized by vast communities of microbes, collectively known as microbiota, or microbiome. Although microbes colonize every surface of our bodies that is exposed to the external environment, the biggest collection of microbes colonizing humans and other mammals can be found in the gastrointestinal tract. Given the fact that the human gut is colonized by several hundred microbial species, our group hypothesized that the chemical diversity of this environment should be significant, and that many of the molecules present in that environment would have important signaling roles. Therefore, we devised a protocol to extract these molecules from human feces and test their signaling properties. Potentially bioactive extracts can be tested through addition to culture medium and ...
[摘要] 人体被巨大的微生物群体统称为微生物群体或微生物群体。尽管微生物在我们身体的每一个暴露于外部环境的表面上定殖,但人类和其他哺乳动物中最大量的微生物可以在胃肠道中找到。鉴于人类肠道已被数百种微生物物种繁殖,我们的团队假设这种环境的化学多样性应该是显着的,并且该环境中存在的许多分子将具有重要的信号传导作用。因此,我们制定了一个协议,从人类粪便中提取这些分子并测试其信号特性。可以通过添加培养基并分析细菌生长和基因表达以及其他性质来测试潜在的生物活性提取物。本文描述的方案提供了一种简便且快速的方法,用于使用肠道沙门氏菌作为模型生物体从粪便样品中提取和测试代谢物。该方案还可以适用于从其他基质如培养的哺乳动物细胞,组织,体液和无菌微生物培养物中提取小分子,并且可以针对各种微生物物种测试所得提取物。
【背景】复杂的微生物群落生活在人类和人类身上,将暴露于外部环境的每个表面都定殖。几十年来,这些社区已经获得了几个教派,其中包括正常的植物群,微生物群和最近的微生物群(Sekirov等人,2010年; ...
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Determination of Intracellular Osmolytes in Cyanobacterial Cells
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2018-04-20
[Abstract] Most of the cyanobacteria accumulate osmolytes including sucrose, glucosylglycerol, in their cells in response to salt stress. Here we describe a protocol of our laboratory for extraction and quantification of cyanobacterial intracellular sucrose and glucosylglycerol. We have confirmed this protocol was applicable to at least four kinds of cyanobacteria, filamentous cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120, unicellular cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 and halotolerant unicellular cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002.
[摘要] 大多数蓝细菌在其细胞中积累包括蔗糖,葡萄糖基甘油在内的渗透压以响应盐胁迫。 在这里,我们描述了我们实验室的蓝藻细胞内蔗糖和葡萄糖甘油的提取和定量方案。 我们已证实此方案适用于至少四种蓝藻,丝状蓝藻Anabaena sp。 PCC 7120,单细胞蓝藻集胞藻 sp。 PCC 6803,细长聚球蓝细菌PCC 7942和耐盐单细胞蓝细菌聚球蓝细菌。 PCC 7002。【背景】Osmolytes(或相容溶质)是一组低分子量的有机溶质,对包括蓝细菌在内的微生物的非生物胁迫适应具有重要的生理作用(Reed和Stewart,1985;Klähn和Hagemann,2011; Slama等人。,2015)。为了确定来自蓝细菌细胞的细胞内渗透物,已经建立了几种方案(Reed和Stewart,1985; Hagemann等人,1997; Motta等人,2004; Du ,2013; Fa et al。,2015)。在这些方法中,基于核磁共振(NMR)光谱的方法是唯一可以直接应用于微生物培养物而不需要任何提取程序的方法(Motta等人,2004年)。然而,这个方案刚刚在Halomonas pantelleriensis 和Sulfolobus solfataricus ...
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