(OD = 30 in Figure 1). Altogether, the results presented in Figure 3 underline
the presence of at least one substance in the extract that restricts PM production, enhances growth at lower levels, and retards growth at higher levels. To check if accumulated bacteriochlorophyll a precursors influence the PM synthesis by the cells, PPIX (chemically synthesized) learn more and Mg-PPIX-mme (isolated from microaerobic HCD cultures supernatants) were added to a growing culture at OD = 1, the point at which PM synthesis is https://www.selleckchem.com/products/pf-04929113.html normally induced by oxygen depletion. Tetrapyrole precursors were supplemented in amounts equivalent to those observed under HCD conditions. Addition of either PPIX or Mg-PPIX-mme resulted in slightly lower PM levels compared to the control (MeOH) (see Additional file 1: Figure S1). However, the reduction was weaker than the effect caused by the addition of the culture extract
or by resuspending fresh cells in culture supernatant. R. rubrum produces different types of bioactive AHLs To check the R. rubrum cultures for bioactive AHL, sterile-filtered culture supernatant from a Fed-Batch HCD culture was analyzed with a thin layer chromatography bioassay with Agrobacterium tumefaciens NTL4 as an indicator strain [18]. These assays clearly demonstrated the bioactivity of R. rubrum HCD culture extracts with the TraR-dependent quorum sensing system of A. tumefaciens NTL4, indicated by intense blue spots on the agar-overlaid TLC plates 3-Methyladenine mouse (see Additional file 1: Figure S2). The extracts were further examined by HPLC-MS for the presence of AHLs. For identification AZD9291 research buy and quantification of HPLC peaks, a commercially available C8oxo-HSL and a derived C8OH-HSL (see Material and Methods) were employed as standards for comparison of retention time, MS signals and DAD spectral properties. In the reversed phase HPLC-separated extract, the following six AHLs could be identified in the supernatant of R. rubrum HCD cultures: N-(3-hydroxhexanoyl)-homoserine lactone (C6OH-HSL), N-(3-hydroxyoctanoyl)-homoserine lactone (C8OH-HSL), N-(3-octanoyl)-homoserine
lactone (C8-HSL), N-(3-decanoyl)-homoserine lactone (C10-HSL), N-(3-hydroxydecanoyl)-homoserine lactone (C10OH-HSL) and N-(3-hydroxydodecanoyl)-homoserine lactone (C12OH-HSL) (for m/z values, see Additional file 1: Table S3). The concentration of C8OH-HSL in the supernatant of an aerobic Fed-Batch cultivation at OD = 50 was ~330 μM. The concentrations of the other AHLs were not determined due to the lack of a reference standard. Since only very small peaks of C10-HSL and C12OH-HSL were detected, these compounds were not considered further. The more abundant peaks were isolated by semi-preparative HPLC as pure fractions and applied to the A. tumefaciens NTL4 autoinducer bioassay on agar plates (Figure 4). C6OH-HSL, C8-HSL, C8OH-HSL, and C10OH-HSL caused a blue colour response of the indicator strain thus confirming the results obtained with crude dichloromethane extracts.