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The widespread use of antibiotics in livestock farming leads to trace residues in food products and wastewater, potentially entailing antimicrobial resistance in food-borne pathogens. The determination of antibiotics in aqueous environments and foodstuff is thus of major concern.
We have been developing optical sensors based on molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) due to the low production costs, stability, format adaptability and the possibility to imprint and thus their ability to recognize a wide variety of target analytes. As a fluorescently responding moiety in the polymer matrix a tailor-made fluorescent indicator cross-linker for direct transfer of the binding event into an optical signal was used. If such a cross-linker is integrated into a thin MIP-shell on microspheres such core/shell particles can be readily used in advanced multiplexing sensory fiber-optic microarrays.
Here, we propose such a fiber-optic microarray based on fluorescent MIP microspheres for antibiotics. The binding behavior and the selectivity of a microarray using these silica core/MIP shell beads were examined and compared with a non-imprinted polymer (NIP) control, employing the target molecules and other structurally closely related antibiotics.
Bacterial infections are a global threat to human health1. Especially nosocomial infections with multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria challenge public health systems and endanger successful treatment of patients in many modern medicine applications as e.g. organ transplant. In the last three decades classical approaches failed to find novel chemical scaffolds suitable for the development of antibiotics that reach the market and caused the modern antibiotics crisis1.
Insect microbiomes produce potent antibiotics with low toxicity to eukaryotic cells to defend their hosts against entomopathogenic microorganisms2. In order to exploit insect microbiomes efficiently and to identify novel antibiotics producing bacteria, we implemented an ultra-high throughput Microfluidics/FACS (fluorescence-associated cell sorting) cultivation and screening pipeline. Here we present the technical aspects of our pipeline including downstream processing of identified producer strains and its suitability for antibiotics discovery.
Bacterial infections are a global threat to human health1. Especially nosocomial infections with multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria challenge public health systems and endanger successful treatment of patients in various modern medicine applications as e.g. organ transplant. In the last three decades classical approaches failed to find novel chemical scaffolds suitable for the development of antibiotics.
Insect microbiomes produce potent antibiotics with low toxicity to eukaryotic cells to defend their hosts against entomopathogenic microorganisms2. In order to exploit insect microbiomes efficiently and to identify novel antibiotic producing bacteria, we implemented an high throughput Microfluidics/FACS (fluorescence-associated cell sorting) cultivation and screening pipeline. Here, we present the technical aspects of our pipeline including downstream processing. This includes genomic fingerprinting of identified producer strains, metabolomic analysis and isolation of natural products.