Effect of Shear Stress on Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolated from the Cystic Fibrosis Lung

Jozef Dingemans; Pieter Monsieurs; Sung-Huan Yu; Aurélie Crabbé; Konrad U. Förstner; Anne Malfroot; Pierre Cornelis; Rob Van Houdt

doi:10.1128/mBio.00813-16

Effect of Shear Stress on Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolated from the Cystic Fibrosis Lung

Jozef Dingemans, Pieter Monsieurs, Sung-Huan Yu, Aurélie Crabbé, Konrad U. Förstner, Anne Malfroot, Pierre Cornelis, Rob Van Houdt

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Abstract

Biofilm formation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of the hallmarks of chronic cystic fibrosis (CF) lung infections. The biofilm matrix protects this bacterium from antibiotics as well as from the immune system. Hence, the prevention or reversion of biofilm formation is believed to have a great impact on treatment of chronic P. aeruginosa CF lung infections. In the present study, we showed that it is possible to modulate the behavior of a highly adapted transmissible P. aeruginosa CF isolate at both the transcriptomic and phenotypic levels by introducing shear stress in a CF-like environment, driving it from a biofilm to a planktonic lifestyle. Consequently, the results obtained in this study are of great importance with regard to therapeutic applications that introduce shear stress in the lungs of CF patients.

Original language	English
Article number	e00813-16
Number of pages	16
Journal	mBio
Volume	7
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00813-16
State	Published - 2 Aug 2016

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