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Green autofluorescence, a double edged monitoring tool for bacterial growth and activity in micro-plates

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The intrinsic green autofluorescence of an Escherichia coli culture has long been overlooked and empirically corrected in green fluorescent protein (GFP) reporter experiments. We show here, by using complementary methods of fluorescence analysis and HPLC, that this autofluorescence, principally arise from the secreted flavins in the external media. The cells secrete roughly 10 times more than what they keep inside. We show next that the secreted flavin fluorescence can be used as a complementary method in measuring the cell concentration particularly when the classical method, based on optical density measure, starts to fail. We also demonstrate that the same external flavins limit the dynamical range of GFP quantification and can lead to a false interpretation of lower global dynamic range of expression than what really happens. In the end we evaluate different autofluorescence correction methods to extract the real GFP signal.
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hal-01628395 , version 1 (31-01-2019)

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Irina Mihalcescu, Mathilde Van-Melle Gateau, Bernard Chelli, Corinne Pinel, Jean-Luc Ravanat. Green autofluorescence, a double edged monitoring tool for bacterial growth and activity in micro-plates. Physical Biology, 2015, 12 (6), ⟨10.1088/1478-3975/12/6/066016⟩. ⟨hal-01628395⟩
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