High-throughput screening of multispecies biofilm formation and quantitative PCR-based assessment of individual species proportions, useful for exploring interspecific bacterial interactions

Microbial Ecology
Dawei RenMette Burmølle

Abstract

Multispecies biofilms are predominant in almost all natural environments, where myriads of resident microorganisms interact with each other in both synergistic and antagonistic manners. The interspecies interactions among different bacteria are, despite the ubiquity of these communities, still poorly understood. Here, we report a rapid, reproducible and sensitive approach for quantitative screening of biofilm formation by bacteria when cultivated as mono- and multispecies biofilms, based on the Nunc-TSP lid system and crystal violet staining. The relative proportion of the individual species in a four-species biofilm was assessed using quantitative PCR based on SYBR Green I fluorescence with specific primers. The results indicated strong synergistic interactions in a four-species biofilm model community with a more than 3-fold increase in biofilm formation and demonstrated the strong dominance of two strains, Xanthomonas retroflexus and Paenibacillus amylolyticus. The developed approach can be used as a standard procedure for evaluating interspecies interactions in defined microbial communities. This will be of significant value in the quantitative study of the microbial composition of multispecies biofilms both in natural envi...Continue Reading

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