细菌的活的非可培养状态

在微生物生态学研究中已经知道并非自然界所有细菌都能用人工培养方法分离培养出来,尤其在水环境中,直接显微镜镜检计数细菌总数往往比常规培养法计数(包括平板法和MPN法)高许多倍,而导致这种现象的原因并不十分清楚。近年来,在对人类肠道病原细菌在水环境中的存活和生长规律研究中发现     

活的不可培养的细菌的研究进展

活的不可培养微生物(VBNC)即一些微生物明显地丧失了可培养的特性,但是保留了自身原有的代谢活力,并且在一定条件下,又可以回复到可培养的状态。从VBNC细菌的诱导条件、生物学特性和检测方法3个方面对VBNC细菌研究进展做一综述。     

"活的非可培养状态"细菌荧光观察方法

目的：建立一套稳定、简便、快捷,可靠的细菌活的非可培养状态（VBNC）荧光显微镜观察方法。利用市售的黑色钢笔墨水着染微孔滤膜,然后采用手动压片方式,将经LIVE/DEAD BacLightTM Bacterial Viability Kit（13152）染色的细菌样本固定在滤膜上,用落射荧光显微镜直接观察。结果：该法所得的荧光图像背景无光亮且黑暗,菌体荧光、形态、排列等均清晰可见,而且呈现绿色荧光的活菌与呈现红色荧光的死菌较易分辨。与现行技术相比,还能缩短染色时间近12～16h。结论：建立的VBNC细菌荧光观察方法能有效地克服现有技术存在的适用范围狭窄、取材困难、观察结果不准确、操作时间长等缺点,可为细菌VBNC研究提供值得借鉴的方法。     

环境中"活的非可培养(VBNC)"细菌的研究进展

1982年徐怀恕等通过对V.cholerae和E.coli存活规律的研究,首次发现并提出了细菌“活的非可培养”状态(Viable but non—culturable state,VBNC),即细菌处于不良环境条件下,其细胞通常缩成球形(最近许多研究中发现还有些细菌表现为体积增大,细胞伸长),用常规方法培养不能使其生长繁殖,但仍然具有代谢活性,在DNA合成抑制剂的作用下,添加一定量的营养物培养时,这些细胞虽然不能分裂,但仍可以伸长生长,证明其仍然存活,并非死亡。处于VBNC状态的细菌,在一定的条件下可以复苏,并具有潜在的致病性,如V.cholerae即通过这种形式实现越冬。至今已有多种细菌进入VBNC状态的报道,许多G^-菌及某些不形成芽胞的G^ 菌在不良环境条件下都可能进入该状态。这些细菌通过进入VBNC状态,得以渡过难关并存活下来,成为细菌的一种特殊存活形式。现在,细菌VBNC状态已作为微生物学的一个全新概念,受到极大的关注,它对传统的微生态学、食品安全、水质监测、菌种保藏及流行病学研究等均提出了新的挑战,也为人们应用基因工程菌的危险性评估提供了新的认识,本文对环境中VBNC细菌的研究进展进行了综述。     

空肠弯曲菌活而不可培养状态的产毒素能力及毒素基因表达的检测

目的 通过诱导空肠弯曲菌进入活的不可培养(VBNC)状态建立细胞学模型,用VeroE6细胞和HeLa细胞检测空肠弯曲菌产细胞膨胀性肠毒素(cytotoxic distendingtoxin,CDT)能力的改变,并在RNA水平上进一步验证毒素的表达。方法 采用4℃冷藏及-70℃冷冻的方法诱导空肠弯曲菌进入VBNC状态,利用细胞总数计算、活细胞染色计数及可培养细胞计数间接确证VBNC状态细菌的存在,细胞对于VBNC状态下的细菌仍然敏感,并用反转录-聚合酶链反应(RT-PCR)证实空肠弯曲菌毒素基因的表达。结果 3种不同状态的细胞计数结果表明存活细胞进入了VBNC状态,细菌经4℃冷藏及-70℃冷冻后数量减少约1个数量级,在冷冻前,细菌对细胞毒性较强,72h时70%以上细胞凋亡,冷冻后的VBNC状态细菌对VeroE6和HeLa细胞的生长仍有影响,72h时约有40%细胞进入凋亡状态。结论 低温、贫养条件下空肠弯曲菌可进入VBNC状态,用常规传统的羊血平板培养基仅能使不到10%的空肠弯曲菌复苏生长,从而可以检测,在VBNC状态时,空肠弯曲菌产毒素能力改变较大,远远低于正常状态,但仍具备产毒素的能力,也从RNA水平实验得到证实。     

一种新发现的细菌的特殊存活形式—活的非可培养状态

人类肠道细菌和病原细菌在海洋与河口环境中存活规律的研究,已经进行了约一个世纪。不同研究者得到的结果基本是一致的,即外来的人类肠道细菌和病原细菌不能在海洋环境中较长期地存活。但是,这个结论是使用常规培养法进行研究而得出来的,也就是当细菌随污水等途径排入海洋与河口环境中,或者在实验室内把细菌加入到一定盐度的模拟水体内进行存活实验,经过一段时间之后,不能再用常规培养法分离培养出这些细菌。人们推测影响人类肠道细菌和病原细菌在海洋     

水环境中微小细菌的分布及生态作用研究进展

由于微生物本身的生理特性及现有检测方法的限制,自然界中大部分细菌不能被传统微生物工具所观察,这类微小细菌被称之为"看不见的主体(Unseen majority,USM)",在大多数天然水环境中营养物浓度较低,微小细菌(USM)占有主导优势,具有重要的生态作用。但是,微小细菌对传统富营养培养基比较敏感,且生物体积微小(小于0.1μm3),难以被传统培养基所检测分离,人们对其认识仍然很局限。总结关于微小细菌的一些特性概念,概括微小细菌的检测和培养方法及在水环境中的分布情况,进一步讨论其生态作用及应用,最后对微小细菌的生理及其在水质评价中的应用等方面进行展望。     

细菌有活力但不可培养状态及其机制研究进展

有活力但不可培养(viable but non-culturable,VBNC)状态是细菌遭遇逆境时进入的一种特殊状态,该状态下的菌体在条件适宜时可复苏并恢复其致病性,被认为是细菌躲避不良环境的一种生存策略。VBNC状态菌体对人类医学和工农业生产具有巨大的潜在威胁,开展关于VBNC状态的检测及诱导、复苏及其机制研究可为减少或避免该状态细菌的危害提供理论基础。本文简要综述了细菌VBNC状态在诱导、复苏及致病性等方面的研究进展,并结合本实验室及国内外相关团队近年来在植物病原细菌VBNC状态研究中的结果,详细总结了VBNC状态细菌的形成和复苏机制,对植物病原细菌在环境胁迫下的存活机制、病害田间初侵染来源分析及VBNC状态菌体在病害循环中的作用等相关研究具有重要参考意义。     

细菌VBNC态检测技术的研究进展

细菌在一些不良压力条件下会进入"活的非可培养状态"(viable but non-culturable,VBNC),其仍具有活力但不能采用常规的平板培养基进行培养,VBNC态细菌一旦培养条件适宜仍能继续生长繁殖,有些致病菌依旧具有毒力。如果检测方法不当,会造成假阳性或假阴性的结果,需要采取适合的检测方法进行检测。文章概述了几种检测VBNC态细菌的方法,如活菌直接计数法、核酸染料检测法、呼吸检测法、分子生物学法、免疫学法、流式细胞仪检测法等,并对检测方法的应用现状进行了评述。     

广西蚕沙细菌组成多样性解析和VBNC菌群的发掘

【目的】解析广西蚕沙中细菌群落组成与多样性,为蚕沙中菌种资源发掘和蚕沙的综合利用提供科学依据。【方法】通过高通量测序技术研究细菌群落组成特征,同时利用常规稀释涂布平板法和基于复苏促进因子(Rpf)的MPN培养系统解析并筛选蚕沙中可培养和活的非可培养(VBNC)状态的优势菌群,并经16SrRNA基因测序对筛选得到的菌株作初步分类鉴定。【结果】高通量测序表明,广西蚕沙样品中细菌归属于10个门、18个纲、27个目、57个科、96个属,其中4个属的丰度达1%以上,优势菌群为变形菌门(Proteobacteria)肠杆菌属(Enterobacter);通过稀释涂布平板法共获得14个属的33株可培养细菌,其中4个属(Citrobacter、Weissella、Chitinophaga、Pseudoclavibacter)在高通量测序中未被检测到;而在MPN培养系统中,基于复苏促进因子的处理组细菌总数最大检出丰度提高了100倍,并从中共检出21株对Rpf敏感的VBNC菌株,其中6个属(Paenibacillus、Caulobacter、Roseomonas、Pantoea、Erwinia、Acine...     

Resuscitation of Vibrio cholerae O1 strain TSI-4 from a viable but nonculturable state by heat shock

Abstract Vibrio cholerae strain TSI-4 was incubated in an M9 salt solution at 15 °C for more than 100 days. The plate counts showed no viable cells on day 30, but a broth culture from that day showed the growth of bacteria. However, after 35 days the bacteria entered the nonculturable state, based on the assessment of both the plate counts and broth culture. A portion of the culture was heated at 45 °C for 1 min in a water bath and subsequently plated onto a nutrient agar plate. More than 1000 colonies were recovered after this heat-shock treatment. The recovered cells showed the same chromosomal DNA pattern in the restriction map and the same outer membrane protein pattern in SDS-PAGE. Recovery of viable cells by heat-shock was achieved in cultures grown on M9 salt but not from cultures grown in phosphate-buffered saline. This suggests that the presence of NH₄Cl in the M9 salt solution may support the growth of the bacteria in a low nutrient medium, while also playing an important role in resuscitation.     

Isolation of a Vibrio cholerae transposon-mutant with an altered viable but nonculturable response

Abstract We have isolated more than 2500 mutants of Vibrio cholerae by using transposon mutagenesis. Mutants were screened under low nutrient conditions in artificial seawater for an altered viable but nonculturable response, compared to the wild-type. Mutant JR09H1 entered the viable but nonculturable state more rapidly than the wild-type at both 25°C and 4°C.     

自然界中难分离培养微生物的分离和应用

采用在分离培养基中添加自然来源的抽提液,或加入一些特殊化合物,使其中处于Viable but non-culturable（VBNC）状态的微生物恢复其生长繁殖能力,从而得到分离。实验结果发现甜菜碱、丙酮酸钠、SOD以及过氧化氢酶可使分离到的微生物种类及菌落总数明显增加。还采用固液结合的方法来分离那些在普通平板培养基上不能形成肉眼可见菌落的那些微小菌落的微生物。采用这几种方法从4份土壤样品中共分离得到52株放线菌,103株细菌,17株真菌。对其中的放线菌和真菌进行了生物活性的测定,得到多株具有抗菌活性的微生物,经过多次复筛的平均阳性率为4.325％,略高于用常规方法分离得到的微生物。因此证明有效的分离方法将为今后微生物药物的筛选和药用微生物菌种的保藏提供更丰富的来源。     

Resuscitation of viable but nonculturable cells of Vibrio parahaemolyticus induced at low temperature under starvation

Vibrio parahaemolyticus is known to exist in a viable but nonculturable state when incubated at low temperature under starvation. It has long been debated whether the culturable cells which appear after temperature upshift are the result of true resuscitation or regrowth of a few residual culturable cells. Starved V. parahaemolyticus cells at 4 degrees C reached the nonculturable stage in about 12 days. The true resuscitation of nonculturable cells of V. parahaemolyticus occurred after spreading them onto an agar medium supplemented with H(2)O(2)-degrading compounds such as catalase or sodium pyruvate. The proposed method may be applicable to detecting the enteropathogen from environmental samples.     

Morphology of the viable but nonculturable Vibrio cholerae as determined bt the freeze fixation technique

Abstract The morphology of the nonculturable Vibrio cholerae strain TSI-4 was examined by the freeze fixation technique of electron microscopy and subsequently four unique structures were found in the fine structure s of this bacterium. The size of the cell was about 2 3 of the growing cell. Although the cell was observed to have an outer membrane as well as the cell membrane and cytoplasm, the outer membrane was undulated and had a surface layer of fine fibers. The peptidoglycan layer was thick and more electron dense than that of normal cells.     

Resuscitation of Vibrio vulnificus from the Viable but Nonculturable State

Like many other gram-negative bacteria, the human pathogen Vibrio vulnificus is induced into a viable but nonculturable (VBNC) state by incubation at low temperatures. The ability of any bacterium to resuscitate from this dormant state would appear to be essential if the VBNC state is truly a survival strategy. The question as to whether the culturable cells which appear following removal of the inducing stress are a result of true resuscitation or of regrowth of a few residual culturable cells has long been debated. V. vulnificus was examined for its ability to resuscitate from this state following a temperature upshift. Several lines of investigation, including dilution studies, determination of the time necessary for appearance of a culturable population, and the effects of nutrient on recovery, all indicated that, at least for V. vulnificus, true resuscitation does occur. Our studies further suggest that nutrient is in some way inhibitory to the resuscitation of cells in the VBNC state and that studies which add nutrient in an attempt to detect resuscitation are able to detect only residual culturable cells which might be present and which were not inhibited by the added nutrient.     

Resuscitation of viable but non-culturable Vibrio parahaemolyticus in a minimum salt medium

Vibrio parahaemolyticus is food-borne pathogen prevalent in Asian countries. This work analyzes factors that influence the resuscitation of the viable but nonculturable (VBNC) state in this bacterium. The MMS-0.5% NaCl medium alone limited cell multiplication, and in this medium, resuscitation was successful when the temperature was upshifted to 25 degrees C but not 37 degrees C. Chloramphenicol inhibition experiments revealed that protein synthesis in the first 24 h of temperature upshift was critical in determining the success of the three-day resuscitation period. The VBNC state induction period and the age of the VBNC cells for successful resuscitation were strain-dependent. Results of this work facilitate further physiological and pathological study of the VBNC state in this pathogen.     

Effect of temperature and plasmid carriage on nonculturability in organisms targeted for release

Abstract: The ability to track genetically modified bacteria released into the environment is essential for assessing their persistence and dispersal. Some bacteria can enter a 'viable but nonculturable' (VBNC) state in which the cells remain viable while losing the ability to grow on routine culture media. Thus, VBNC cells are not detectable by standard plating methods. In order to determine what conditions, if any, induce this state in Pseudomonas fluorescens, Pseudomonas syringae , and Escherichia coli , cells were 'marked' with lux genes, either chromosomally or on one of two different plasmids. Variations in temperature, but not nutrient or NaCl concentrations, affected culturability of these strains and induced the VBNC state. The temperature which induced the VBNC state in the two pseudomonads depended on whether or not the cell carried one of the two lux -marked plasmids. This effect was shown not to be due to the presence of the lux genes, as their removal from the plasmid had no effect on entry into the VBNC state. Instead, the effect appeared to depend on the location of the plasmid DNA, as a strain of P. fluorescens with the same plasmid integrated into the chromosome behaved identically to the parent strain. The fact that plasmids may have such a dramatic effect on culturability has significant implications for the monitoring of genetically modified bacteria intended for environmental release.