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@ARTICLE{Kasahara:1008687,
author = {Kasahara, Keitaro and Leygeber, Markus and Seiffarth,
Johannes and Ruzaeva, Karina and Drepper, Thomas and Nöh,
Katharina and Kohlheyer, Dietrich},
title = {{E}nabling oxygen-controlled microfluidic cultures for
spatiotemporal microbial single-cell analysis},
journal = {Frontiers in microbiology},
volume = {14},
issn = {1664-302X},
address = {Lausanne},
publisher = {Frontiers Media},
reportid = {FZJ-2023-02478},
pages = {1198170},
year = {2023},
abstract = {Microfluidic cultivation devices that facilitate O2 control
enable unique studies of the complex interplay between
environmental O2 availability and microbial physiology at
the single-cell level. Therefore, microbial single-cell
analysis based on time-lapse microscopy is typically used to
resolve microbial behavior at the single-cell level with
spatiotemporal resolution. Time-lapse imaging then provides
large image-data stacks that can be efficiently analyzed by
deep learning analysis techniques, providing new insights
into microbiology. This knowledge gain justifies the
additional and often laborious microfluidic experiments.
Obviously, the integration of on-chip O2 measurement and
control during the already complex microfluidic cultivation,
and the development of image analysis tools, can be a
challenging endeavor. A comprehensive experimental approach
to allow spatiotemporal single-cell analysis of living
microorganisms under controlled O2 availability is presented
here. To this end, a gas-permeable polydimethylsiloxane
microfluidic cultivation chip and a low-cost 3D-printed
mini-incubator were successfully used to control O2
availability inside microfluidic growth chambers during
time-lapse microscopy. Dissolved O2 was monitored by imaging
the fluorescence lifetime of the O2-sensitive dye RTDP using
FLIM microscopy. The acquired image-data stacks from
biological experiments containing phase contrast and
fluorescence intensity data were analyzed using in-house
developed and open-source image-analysis tools. The
resulting oxygen concentration could be dynamically
controlled between $0\%$ and $100\%.$ The system was
experimentally tested by culturing and analyzing an E. coli
strain expressing green fluorescent protein as an indirect
intracellular oxygen indicator. The presented system allows
for innovative microbiological research on microorganisms
and microbial ecology with single-cell resolution.},
cin = {IBG-1 / IMET},
ddc = {570},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-1-20101118 / I:(DE-Juel1)IMET-20090612},
pnm = {2171 - Biological and environmental resources for
sustainable use (POF4-217) / DFG project 491111487 -
Open-Access-Publikationskosten / 2022 - 2024 /
Forschungszentrum Jülich (OAPKFZJ) (491111487)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-2171 / G:(GEPRIS)491111487},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {37408642},
UT = {WOS:001022849200001},
doi = {10.3389/fmicb.2023.1198170},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1008687},
}