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- 5 ml taken from 10-ml overnight E coli culture and placed into 150 ml broth for 5 hr incubation at 37 C (inoculum for biofilm optimization trial III).
Biofilm Optimization (Trial III)
- 3 CBDs were incubated at 21, 30 and 37 C at 30 rpm for 24 hours. (All procedures are same as the first 2 trials only the M9 inoculum suspension method was changed to matching the broth with 1.0 McFarland before centrifuging.
- 5-hr incubated E coli broth was adjusted to the 1.0 McFarland Std (Absorbance@ 0.257). About 0.3ml broth culture to 2.7ml broth was required.
- For minimal medium M9, absorbance of E coli broth at 600nm adjusted until it matched 1.0 McFarland Std. E coli 1.0 McFarland inoculum centrifuged at 3000g for 10 minutes, supernatant LB Broth discarded through careful pipetting, without disturbing sedimented E coli cells. M9 medium was then used to resuspend E coli cells.
- About 200 uL of adjusted inoculum pipetted into each well of CBD.
- Columns 1-6: rich M9 Medium
- Columns 7-12: minimal LB Medium
- CBD were covered with pegged lid, parafilmed and incubated at desired temperatures at 30 rpm.
Serial Plating
- LB-based 1.0 McFarland E coli inoculum was done at 10^-10 to 10^-20 dilutions.
- M9-based 1.0 McFarland E coli inoculum was done at 10^-6 to 10^-10 dilutions.
- Planktonic cells from CBD wells were also done at 10^-2, 10^-4, 10^-6 dilutions for both LB and M9 wells of 21, 30 and 37 C CBDs.
- To be checked after 24 hrs for colony counting.
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