PreventingE. colibiofilm formation with antimicrobial peptide surface coatings: recognizing the dependence on the bacterial binding mode using live-cell microscopy
Adam Hansson,
Eskil André Karlsen,
Wenche Stensen
et al.
Abstract:Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) can kill bacteria by destabilizing their membranes, yet, to translate these molecules' properties into a covalently attached coating is challenging. Standard microbiology methods do not work well for grafted AMPs, particularly it is difficult to distinguish the AMPs' bactericidal potency from factors relating to bacteria's binding behavior, e.g., which type of and how persistent bacteria-surface contacts that is necessary. Here we present a method combining live-cell microscopy an… Show more
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