Journal: Microbial Cell Factories
Article Title: Modified vaginal lactobacilli expressing fluorescent and luminescent proteins for more effective monitoring of their release from nanofibers, safety and cell adhesion
doi: 10.1186/s12934-024-02612-w
Figure Lengend Snippet: Kinetics of release of vaginal lactobacilli from PEO nanofibers determined by measuring fluorescence ( a ), and the influence of electrospinning on the viability of fluorescent lactobacilli ( b ). Percentage of the released bacteria was determined based on the highest overall fluorescent signal. Viability in dispersion was normalized to dry mass to enable comparison with viability in nanofibers. Lpl, Lactiplantibacillus plantarum (red); Lga, Lactobacillus gasseri (brown); Lje, Lactobacillus jensenii (blue); Lcr, Lactobacillus crispatus (green); D, dispersion; N, nanofibers. * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001, **** p < 0.0001 (Student’s t test) relative to bacterial dispersion
Article Snippet: In this study, we used three vaginal lactobacilli L. crispatus ATCC 33,820, L. gasseri ATCC 33,323, L. jensenii ATCC 25,258 and a control L. plantarum ATCC 8014 to express the fluorescent proteins mCherry and GFP, as previously described [ ], and also engineered these bacteria to express the luminescent protein Nluc.
Techniques: Fluorescence, Bacteria, Dispersion, Comparison