Imaging N-acyl homoserine lactone quorum sensing in vivo
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
Standard
Imaging N-acyl homoserine lactone quorum sensing in vivo. / Hultqvist, Louise Dahl; Alhede, Maria; Jakobsen, Tim Holm; Givskov, Michael; Bjarnsholt, Thomas.
Quorum Sensing: Methods and Protocols. ed. / Livia Leoni; Giordano Rampion. Vol. 1673 Humana Press, 2018. p. 203-212 (Methods in Molecular Biology; No. 1673).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
Harvard
APA
Vancouver
Author
Bibtex
}
RIS
TY - CHAP
T1 - Imaging N-acyl homoserine lactone quorum sensing in vivo
AU - Hultqvist, Louise Dahl
AU - Alhede, Maria
AU - Jakobsen, Tim Holm
AU - Givskov, Michael
AU - Bjarnsholt, Thomas
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - In order to study N-acyl homoserine lactone (AHL)-based quorum sensing in vivo, we present a protocol using an Escherichia coli strain equipped with a luxR-based monitor system, which in the presence of exogenous AHL molecules expresses a green fluorescent protein (GFP). Lungs from mice challenged intratracheally with alginate beads containing both a Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain together with the E. coli monitor strain can be investigated at different time points postinfection. Epifluorescent or confocal scanning laser microscopy (CSLM) is used to detect the GFP-expressing E. coli monitor strain in the lung tissues, indicating production and excretion of AHLs in vivo by the infecting P. aeruginosa.
AB - In order to study N-acyl homoserine lactone (AHL)-based quorum sensing in vivo, we present a protocol using an Escherichia coli strain equipped with a luxR-based monitor system, which in the presence of exogenous AHL molecules expresses a green fluorescent protein (GFP). Lungs from mice challenged intratracheally with alginate beads containing both a Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain together with the E. coli monitor strain can be investigated at different time points postinfection. Epifluorescent or confocal scanning laser microscopy (CSLM) is used to detect the GFP-expressing E. coli monitor strain in the lung tissues, indicating production and excretion of AHLs in vivo by the infecting P. aeruginosa.
KW - CSLM
KW - Epifluorescence microscopy
KW - In vivo
KW - Pseudomonas aeruginosa
KW - Pulmonary infection model
KW - Quorum sensing
U2 - 10.1007/978-1-4939-7309-5_16
DO - 10.1007/978-1-4939-7309-5_16
M3 - Book chapter
C2 - 29130175
AN - SCOPUS:85033727680
SN - 978-1-4939-7308-8
VL - 1673
T3 - Methods in Molecular Biology
SP - 203
EP - 212
BT - Quorum Sensing
A2 - Leoni, Livia
A2 - Rampion, Giordano
PB - Humana Press
ER -
ID: 186872679