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Acin-Albiac M, Filannino P, Gobbetti M, Di Cagno R. Microbial high throughput phenomics: The potential of an irreplaceable omics. Comput Struct Biotechnol J 2020; 18:2290-2299. [PMID: 32994888 PMCID: PMC7490730 DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2020.08.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2020] [Revised: 08/07/2020] [Accepted: 08/08/2020] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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The phenotype-genotype landscape is a projection coming from detailed phenotypic and genotypic data under environmental pressure. Although phenome of microbes or microbial consortia mirrors the functional expression of a genome or set of genomes, metabolic traits rely on the phenotype. Phenomics has the potential to revolution functional genomics. In this review, we discuss why and how phenomics was developed. We described how phenomics may extend our understanding of the assembly of microbial consortia and their functionality, and then we outlined the novel applications within the study of phenomes using Omnilog platform together with a revision of its current application to study lactic acid bacteria (LAB) metabolic traits during food processing. LAB were proposed as a suitable model system to analyze and discuss the implementation and exploitation of this emerging omics approach. We introduced the 'phenotype switching', as a new phenotype microarray approach to get insights in bacterial physiology. An overview of methodologies and tools to manage and analyze the generated data was provided. Finally, pro and cons of pipelines developed so far, including the most innovative ones were critically analyzed. We propose an R pipeline, recently deposited, which allows to automatically analyze Omnilog data integrating the latest approaches and implementing the new concepts described here.
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Affiliation(s)
- Marta Acin-Albiac
- Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy
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- Department of Soil, Plant and Food Science, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy
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- Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy
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Jałowiecki Ł, Krzymińska I, Górska M, Płaza G, Ratman-Kłosińska I. Effect of the freeze-drying process on the phenotypic diversity of Pseudomonas putida strains isolated from the interior of healthy roots of Sida hermaphrodita: Phenotype microarrays (PMs). Cryobiology 2020; 96:145-151. [PMID: 32702362 DOI: 10.1016/j.cryobiol.2020.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2020] [Revised: 07/15/2020] [Accepted: 07/15/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The objective of this study was to research the effect of the freeze-drying process on the metabolic changes of Pseudomonas putida strains (E41, E42, R85) isolated from the interior of Sida hermaphrodita roots with the use of the phenotypic microarrays (PM) technology. The proposed method of the freeze-drying process with inulin as component lycoprotectant demonstrated a high bacterial survival ratio (BSR) immediately after freeze-drying and storage after 12 months. While, after 360 days of freeze-drying BSR decreased to value of 74.38. Pseudomonas putida strains were assayed on microplates PM1-PM5, and PM9-PM13 testing 664 different substrates. However, no significant differences in the use of C substrates were observed either before or after the freeze drying process. An insignificant negative effect of the freeze-drying on the use of these substrates was observed. The utilization of N, P and S sources was low or showed no metabolic activity for most of the compounds after freeze-drying. The freeze-drying process increased the sensitivity of the bacteria to antibiotics and selected chemicals. In this study, the freeze-drying process decreased the metabolic activities of the tested strains and their resistance to antibiotics and chemicals.
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- Łukasz Jałowiecki
- Environmental Microbiology Unit, Institute for Ecology of Industrial Areas, Kossutha 6, 40-844, Katowice, Poland
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- Department of Microbiology, Institute of Microbial Technologies, NSZZ Solidarnosc 9 Av., 62-700, Turek, Poland
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- ProBiotics Polska Magdalena Górska, Bratuszyn 21, 62-720, Brudzew, Poland
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- Environmental Microbiology Unit, Institute for Ecology of Industrial Areas, Kossutha 6, 40-844, Katowice, Poland.
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- Office of Projects Coordination, Marketing and Research Commercialisation, Institute for Ecology of Industrial Areas, Kossutha 6, 40-844, Katowice, Poland
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Jałowiecki Ł, Chojniak J, Dorgeloh E, Hegedusova B, Ejhed H, Magnér J, Płaza G. Using phenotype microarrays in the assessment of the antibiotic susceptibility profile of bacteria isolated from wastewater in on-site treatment facilities. Folia Microbiol (Praha) 2017; 62:453-461. [PMID: 28451946 PMCID: PMC5630657 DOI: 10.1007/s12223-017-0516-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2016] [Accepted: 03/06/2017] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The scope of the study was to apply Phenotype Biolog MicroArray (PM) technology to test the antibiotic sensitivity of the bacterial strains isolated from on-site wastewater treatment facilities. In the first step of the study, the percentage values of resistant bacteria from total heterotrophic bacteria growing on solid media supplemented with various antibiotics were determined. In the untreated wastewater, the average shares of kanamycin-, streptomycin-, and tetracycline-resistant bacteria were 53, 56, and 42%, respectively. Meanwhile, the shares of kanamycin-, streptomycin-, and tetracycline-resistant bacteria in the treated wastewater were 39, 33, and 29%, respectively. To evaluate the antibiotic susceptibility of the bacteria present in the wastewater, using the phenotype microarrays (PMs), the most common isolates from the treated wastewater were chosen: Serratia marcescens ss marcescens, Pseudomonas fluorescens, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, Stenotrophomonas rhizophila, Microbacterium flavescens, Alcaligenes faecalis ss faecalis, Flavobacterium hydatis, Variovorax paradoxus, Acinetobacter johnsonii, and Aeromonas bestiarum. The strains were classified as multi-antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Most of them were resistant to more than 30 antibiotics from various chemical classes. Phenotype microarrays could be successfully used as an additional tool for evaluation of the multi-antibiotic resistance of environmental bacteria and in preliminary determination of the range of inhibition concentration.
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- Łukasz Jałowiecki
- Department of Environmental Microbiology, Institute for Ecology of Industrial Areas, Katowice, Poland
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- Department of Environmental Microbiology, Institute for Ecology of Industrial Areas, Katowice, Poland
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- Development and Assessment Institute in Waste Water Technology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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- Development and Assessment Institute in Waste Water Technology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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- Natural Resources and Environmental Effects, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Natural Resources and Environmental Effects, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Environmental Microbiology, Institute for Ecology of Industrial Areas, Katowice, Poland.
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Standard protocols are available in order to apply Phenotype MicroArray (PM) technology to characterize different groups of microorganisms. Nevertheless, there is the need to pay attention to several crucial steps in order to obtain high-quality and reproducible data from PM, such as the choice of the Dye mix, the type and concentration of the carbon source in metabolic experiments, the use of a buffered medium. A systematic research of auxotrophies in strains to be tested should be carefully evaluated before starting with PM experiments. Detailed protocols to obtain defined and reproducible phenotypic profiles for bacteria and yeasts are shown. Moreover, the innovative software opm R packages and DuctApe suite for the analysis of kinetic data produced by PM and panphenome description are reported.
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- Carlo Viti
- Dipartimento di Scienze delle Produzioni Agroalimentari e dell'Ambiente (DISPAA), University of Florence, P.le delle Cascine, 24, Florence, 50144, Italy,
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Arioli S, Guglielmetti S, Amalfitano S, Viti C, Marchi E, Decorosi F, Giovannetti L, Mora D. Characterization of tetA-like gene encoding for a major facilitator superfamily efflux pump in Streptococcus thermophilus. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2014; 355:61-70. [PMID: 24766488 DOI: 10.1111/1574-6968.12449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2014] [Revised: 04/07/2014] [Accepted: 04/22/2014] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Efflux pumps are membrane proteins involved in the active extrusion of a wide range of structurally dissimilar substrates from cells. A multidrug efflux pump named TetA belonging to the major facilitator superfamily (MFS) of transporters was identified in the Streptococcus thermophilus DSM 20617(T) genome. The tetA-like gene was found in the genomes of a number of S. thermophilus strains sequenced to date and in Streptococcus macedonicus ACA-DC 198, suggesting a possible horizontal gene transfer event between these two Streptococcus species, which are both adapted to the milk environment. Flow cytometry (single-cell) analysis revealed bistable TetA activity in the S. thermophilus population, and tetA-like gene over-expression resulted in a reduced susceptibility to ethidium bromide, tetracycline, and other toxic compounds even when the efflux pump was over-expressed in a strain naturally lacking tetA-like gene.
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- Stefania Arioli
- Department of Food Environmental and Nutritional Sciences (DeFENS), University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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Oggioni MR, Furi L, Coelho JR, Maillard JY, Martínez JL. Recent advances in the potential interconnection between antimicrobial resistance to biocides and antibiotics. Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther 2013; 11:363-6. [PMID: 23566146 DOI: 10.1586/eri.13.16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Interconnection between microbial resistance to biocides and antibiotics is a topic of increasing interest given the recent changes in European legislation and claims of a risk of biocide use on bacterial resistance. In the second International Conference on Antimicrobial Research held in Lisbon in November 2012, a workshop specifically addressed this topic, presentations included approaches to risk assessment and investigations into the molecular mechanisms of biocide resistance and co- and cross-resistance to antibiotics. The overall conclusion was that, even if each biocide represents a specific case, there is scientific evidence that biocides select for biocide resistance, but that there is, so far, no conclusive evidence that this also determined or will determine an increase in antibiotic resistance.
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- Marco R Oggioni
- LAMMB Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Mediche, Università di Siena, Siena, Italy.
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Ciusa ML, Furi L, Knight D, Decorosi F, Fondi M, Raggi C, Coelho JR, Aragones L, Moce L, Visa P, Freitas AT, Baldassarri L, Fani R, Viti C, Orefici G, Martinez JL, Morrissey I, Oggioni MR. A novel resistance mechanism to triclosan that suggests horizontal gene transfer and demonstrates a potential selective pressure for reduced biocide susceptibility in clinical strains of Staphylococcus aureus. Int J Antimicrob Agents 2012; 40:210-20. [PMID: 22789727 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2012.04.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2012] [Revised: 03/23/2012] [Accepted: 04/24/2012] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The widely used biocide triclosan selectively targets FabI, the NADH-dependent trans-2-enoyl-acyl carrier protein reductase, which is an important target for narrow-spectrum antimicrobial drug development. In relation to the growing concern about biocide resistance, we compared in vitro mutants and clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus with reduced triclosan susceptibility. Clinical isolates of S. aureus as well as laboratory-generated mutants were assayed for minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC) phenotypes and genotypes related to reduced triclosan susceptibility. A potential epidemiological cut-off (ECOFF) MBC of >4 mg/L was observed for triclosan in clinical isolates of S. aureus. These showed significantly lower MICs and higher MBCs than laboratory mutants. These groups of strains also had few similarities in the triclosan resistance mechanism. Molecular analysis identified novel resistance mechanisms linked to the presence of an additional sh-fabI allele derived from Staphylococcus haemolyticus. The lack of predictive value of in-vitro-selected mutations for clinical isolates indicates that laboratory tests in the present form appear to be of limited value. More importantly, detection of sh-fabI as a novel resistance mechanism with high potential for horizontal gene transfer demonstrates for the first time that a biocide could exert a selective pressure able to drive the spread of a resistance determinant in a human pathogen.
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Application of phenotypic microarrays to environmental microbiology. Curr Opin Biotechnol 2012; 23:41-8. [PMID: 22217654 DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2011.12.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2011] [Revised: 11/11/2011] [Accepted: 12/12/2011] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Environmental organisms are extremely diverse and only a small fraction has been successfully cultured in the laboratory. Culture in micro wells provides a method for rapid screening of a wide variety of growth conditions and commercially available plates contain a large number of substrates, nutrient sources, and inhibitors, which can provide an assessment of the phenotype of an organism. This review describes applications of phenotype arrays to anaerobic and thermophilic microorganisms, use of the plates in stress response studies, in development of culture media for newly discovered strains, and for assessment of phenotype of environmental communities. Also discussed are considerations and challenges in data interpretation and visualization, including data normalization, statistics, and curve fitting.
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