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Título: | Staphylococcus epidermidis is largely dependent on iron availability to form biofilms |
Autor(es): | Oliveira, Fernando E. França, Angela Cerca, Nuno |
Palavras-chave: | Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilm formation iron |
Data: | Dez-2017 |
Editora: | Elsevier 1 |
Revista: | International Journal of Medical Microbiology |
Citação: | Oliveira, Fernando E.; França, Angela; Cerca, Nuno, Staphylococcus epidermidis is largely dependent on iron availability to form biofilms. International Journal of Medical Microbiology, 307(8), 552-563, 2017 |
Resumo(s): | Staphylococcus epidermidis has long been known as a major bacterial coloniser of the human skin, yet it is also a prominent nosocomial pathogen. Its remarkable ability to assemble structured biofilms has been its major known pathogenic feature to date. Notwithstanding important discoveries that have been accomplished, several questions about S. epidermidis biofilm formation still remain to be elucidated. This study aimed to assess whether iron availability modulates S. epidermidis biofilm formation and, if so, to explore how such modulation occurs. Biofilms of three S. epidermidis strains were grown under iron-enriched/-deficient conditions and several physiologic and transcriptomic changes were assessed. Our data revealed that while physiologic iron levels do not compromise biofilm formation, iron excess or deficiency is detrimental for this process. Conversely, biofilm cells were not affected in the same way when grown planktonically. By studying biofilm cells in detail we found that their viability and cultivability were seriously compromised by iron deficiency. Also, a temporal analysis of biofilm formation revealed that iron excess/deficiency: i) impaired biomass accumulation from 6 h onwards, and ii) induced changes in the biofilm structure, indicating that iron availability plays a pivotal role from an early biofilm development stage. The expression of several putative iron-related genes, namely encoding siderophore biosynthesis/transport-related proteins, was found to be modulated by iron availability, providing a biological validation of their function on S. epidermidis iron metabolism. This study therefore provides evidence that iron plays a pivotal role on S. epidermidis biofilm formation. |
Tipo: | Artigo |
Descrição: | Supplementary data associated with this article can be found, in the online version, at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmm.2017.08.009. |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/1822/47542 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.ijmm.2017.08.009 |
ISSN: | 1618-0607 |
e-ISSN: | 1438-4221 |
Versão da editora: | http://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-medical-microbiology/ |
Arbitragem científica: | yes |
Acesso: | Acesso aberto |
Aparece nas coleções: | CEB - Publicações em Revistas/Séries Internacionais / Publications in International Journals/Series |
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