Laser tweezers Raman spectroscopy of E. coli under antibiotic stress in microfluidic chips

Jan Ježek; Zdeněk Pilát; Silvie Bernatová; Johanna Kirchhoff; Astrid Tannert; Ute Neugebauer; Ota Samek; Pavel Zemánek

doi:10.1117/12.2517933

18 December 2018 Laser tweezers Raman spectroscopy of E. coli under antibiotic stress in microfluidic chips

Jan Ježek, Zdeněk Pilát, Silvie Bernatová, Johanna Kirchhoff, Astrid Tannert, Ute Neugebauer, Ota Samek, Pavel Zemánek

Proceedings Volume 10976, 21st Czech-Polish-Slovak Optical Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics; 1097618 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2517933
Event: 21st Czech-Polish-Slovak Optical Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics, 2018, Lednice, Czech Republic

Abstract

Analyzing the cells in various body fluids can greatly deepen the understanding of the mechanisms governing the cellular physiology. Because of the variability of physiological and metabolic states, it is important to be able to perform such studies on individual cells. Therefore, we developed an optofluidic system in which we precisely manipulated and monitored individual cells of Escherichia coli. We used laser tweezers Raman spectroscopy (LTRS) in a microchamber chip to manipulate and analyze individual E. coli cells. We subjected the cells to antibiotic cefotaxime, and we observed the changes by the time-lapse microscopy and Raman spectroscopy. We found observable changes in the cellular morphology (cell elongation) and in Raman spectra, which were consistent with other recently published observations. We tested the capabilities of the optofluidic system and found it to be a reliable and versatile solution for this class of microbiological experiments [18].

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Jan Ježek, Zdeněk Pilát, Silvie Bernatová, Johanna Kirchhoff, Astrid Tannert, Ute Neugebauer, Ota Samek, and Pavel Zemánek "Laser tweezers Raman spectroscopy of E. coli under antibiotic stress in microfluidic chips", Proc. SPIE 10976, 21st Czech-Polish-Slovak Optical Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics, 1097618 (18 December 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2517933

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