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Pma-linked fluorescence for rapid detection of viable bacterial endospores
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Venkateswaran, Kasthuri LaDuc, Myron T. Mohapatra, Bidyut |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Description | The most common approach for assessing the abundance of viable bacterial endospores is the culture-based plating method. However, culture-based approaches are heavily biased and oftentimes incompatible with upstream sample processing strategies, which make viable cells/spores uncultivable. This shortcoming highlights the need for rapid molecular diagnostic tools to assess more accurately the abundance of viable spacecraft-associated microbiota, perhaps most importantly bacterial endospores. Propidium monoazide (PMA) has received a great deal of attention due to its ability to differentiate live, viable bacterial cells from dead ones. PMA gains access to the DNA of dead cells through compromised membranes. Once inside the cell, it intercalates and eventually covalently bonds with the double-helix structures upon photoactivation with visible light. The covalently bound DNA is significantly altered, and unavailable to downstream molecular-based manipulations and analyses. Microbiological samples can be treated with appropriate concentrations of PMA and exposed to visible light prior to undergoing total genomic DNA extraction, resulting in an extract comprised solely of DNA arising from viable cells. This ability to extract DNA selectively from living cells is extremely powerful, and bears great relevance to many microbiological arenas. |
| File Size | 75025 |
| Page Count | 2 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20120014131 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t3pw1gt73 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2012-09-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Microbiology Microscopy Deoxyribonucleic Acid Fluorescence Bacteria Spores Bacteriology Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |
