Journal: mSystems
Article Title: Taxonomy of Pseudomonas spp. determines interactions with Bacillus subtilis
doi: 10.1128/msystems.00212-24
Figure Lengend Snippet: Pseudomonads negatively affect B. subtilis . (a) DK1042 constitutively expressing mKate2 was mixed pairwise with 720 fluorescent soil isolates and cultured for 24 h at 30°C in a microplate format. Monocultures of DK1042 (purple wells) were used for the comparison of pellicle formation, and wells with non-inoculated medium (yellow wells) were used to control for contamination. Each well was imaged in four positions with a Perkin Elmer Opera QEHS, acquiring images in the Z -direction every 2 µm to obtain a cube with height 40 µm. Media were removed before microscopy. (b) DK1042 biovolumes were compared between co- and monoculture to yield log 2 (fold change). Points represent medians of three replicates. Neutral, negative, and positive categories were assigned based on median and interquartile range.
Article Snippet: Pellicles were incubated at 30°C for 24 h, before removing the supernatant underneath the pellicle and scanning the plate in an Opera QEHS high-content screening microscope (PerkinElmer) equipped with a UAPO20 × W3/340 objective with NA = 0.7.
Techniques: Expressing, Cell Culture, Comparison, Control, Microscopy