Bibliographic citations
Castilla, A., (2023). Actividad de promotores involucrados en la formación del biofilm de Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC® 10145TM en dos modos de crecimiento [Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/14536
Castilla, A., Actividad de promotores involucrados en la formación del biofilm de Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC® 10145TM en dos modos de crecimiento []. PE: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia; 2023. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/14536
@mastersthesis{renati/910942,
title = "Actividad de promotores involucrados en la formación del biofilm de Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC® 10145TM en dos modos de crecimiento",
author = "Castilla Sedano, Anderson Javier",
publisher = "Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia",
year = "2023"
}
Biofilms are communities of bacteria that are physiologically adapted to survive under adverse conditions. Biofilms represent a problem because they grow on medical instruments and on infrastructures where they cause deterioration and entail economic losses. Experimental models of biofilms allow us to characterize both phenotypic changes and expression/repression of genes during their development and are, therefore, necessary to evaluate the effect of potential inhibitors. In this study, the activity of six promoters (of the LasR gene and the CdrA, Flg, Fim, Pel, and PaQa operons) was monitored as a function of time (3, 24, and 48 hours) in cultures of Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC® 10145TM in two growth modes: biofilm mode (in a biofilm model, static cultures in a polystyrene Petri dish) and a planktonic mode (in shaken cultures), using plasmid reporter systems with promoter-fluorescent reporter gene fusions. The designed plasmids exhibited stability and measurable fluorescent signal and did not affect cell growth. Two promoters, Flg and Fim, evidenced markedly differential activity between these two modes; meanwhile, PaQa and Pel show slight differences at 3 hours. Thus, two of the reporter systems evaluated appear as useful tools for the screening of potentially inhibitory stimuli for the development of biofilms.
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