Taking advantage of electric field induced bacterial aggregation for the study of interactions between bacteria and macromolecules by capillary electrophoresis
Résumé
The quantification of interaction stoechiometry and binding constant between bacteria (or other microorganism) and
(macro)molecules remains a challenging issue for which only a few adapted methods are available. In this paper, a new methodology
was developed for the determination of the interaction stoichiometry and binding constant between bacteria and (macro)
molecules. The originality of this work is to take advantage of the bacterial aggregation phenomenon to directly quantify the free
ligand concentration in equilibrated bacteria-ligand mixtures using frontal analysis continuous capillary electrophoresis. The described
methodology does not require any sample preparation such as filtration step or centrifugation. It was applied to the study of
interactions between Erwinia carotovora and different generations of dendrigraft poly-L-lysines leading to quantitative informations
(i.e. stoichiometry and binding site constant). High stoichiometries in the order of 106-107 were determined between nanometric
dendrimer-like ligands and the rod-shaped micrometric bacteria. The effect of the dendrimer generation on the binding constant
and the stoichiometry is discussed. Stoichiometries were compared with those obtained by replacing the bacteria by polystyrene
microbeads to demonstrate the internalization of the ligands inside the bacteria and the increase of the specific surface via the
formation of vesicles.
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