Journal: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Article Title: Temperature Affects the Host Range of Rhabdochlamydia porcellionis
doi: 10.1128/aem.00309-23
Figure Lengend Snippet: The growth of R. porcellionis in mammalian cells depends on temperature. (A) Growth kinetics of R. porcellionis in Sf9 cells incubated at 20, 28, 33, and 37°C. (B) Growth kinetics of R. porcellionis in mammalian cells incubated at 28°C. In both panel A and panel B, the y axis represents the fold change relative to the initial time point. (C) Doubling time of R. porcellionis in the different cell lines. Doubling times were estimated by dividing 48 h by the log 2 of the highest fold change observed between two consecutive time points. Despite the marked difference between the doubling time in Sf9 and the other cell lines, the Kruskal-Wallis test was not statistically significant ( P = 0.06). (D) IFU count of R. porcellionis grown in different cell lines at 28°C. The cells were fixed at 6 days postinfection. The tendency of infected Sf9 cells to detach from the glass coverslips could induce an underestimation of the IFU count. A one-way ANOVA revealed that there was a statistically significant difference between at least two cell lines ( P value = 0.0002). The plot shows the results of the Tukey honestly significant difference test for the pairwise comparison of the IFU count in the different cell lines (**, <0.01; ***, <0.001). (E) McCoy, A549, and Ishikawa cells infected with R. porcellionis , incubated at 28°C, and fixed at 6 days postinfection. The two enlarged bodies in McCoy and A549 cells are likely aberrant bodies (white arrows). Cells were stained with concanavalin A (red), DAPI (blue), and anti- Simkania antibodies (green). Bar, 10 μm. The results show the mean and standard deviation from three biological replicates.
Article Snippet: The coverslips were then incubated at room temperature for 2 h in blocking solution with rabbit anti- Simkania negevensis antibodies ( ) (dilution at 1:1,000), rabbit anti- Waddlia chondrophila antibodies ( ) (dilution at 1:1,000), or goat antibodies targeting the major outer membrane protein of Chlamydia trachomatis (dilution at 1:1,000) (LSBio, Seattle, WA, USA).
Techniques: Incubation, Infection, Comparison, Staining, Standard Deviation