TY - JOUR
T1 - Generating Bacterial Foods in Toxicology Studies with Caenorhabditis elegans
AU - Ke, Tao
AU - Santamaría, Abel
AU - Tinkov, Alexey A.
AU - Bornhorst, Julia
AU - Aschner, Michael
PY - 2020/6/1
Y1 - 2020/6/1
N2 - Caenorhabditis elegans is a free-living animal that is used as a powerful experimental model in biological sciences. The natural habitat of the animal are areas rich in material from rotting plants or fruits being decomposed by a growing number of microorganisms. The ecology of the natural habitat of C. elegans is a complex interactive network involving many species, including numerous types of bacteria, viruses, fungi, slugs, snails, and isopods, among which bacteria play multifaceted roles in the natural history of C. elegans. Under laboratory conditions, C. elegans is routinely cultured in a petri dish filled with solidified agar and seeded with Escherichia coli strain OP50, the latter offering an alternative model to study the interaction between bacteria and host. Because of the clear advantages of generating specific bacterial foods for mechanistic studies in C. elegans, it is important to develop a robust protocol to generate high-quality bacterial foods commensurate with experimental requirements. Based on previous work by us and others, herein we present a protocol on how to generate these optimal bacterial food–based research tools.
AB - Caenorhabditis elegans is a free-living animal that is used as a powerful experimental model in biological sciences. The natural habitat of the animal are areas rich in material from rotting plants or fruits being decomposed by a growing number of microorganisms. The ecology of the natural habitat of C. elegans is a complex interactive network involving many species, including numerous types of bacteria, viruses, fungi, slugs, snails, and isopods, among which bacteria play multifaceted roles in the natural history of C. elegans. Under laboratory conditions, C. elegans is routinely cultured in a petri dish filled with solidified agar and seeded with Escherichia coli strain OP50, the latter offering an alternative model to study the interaction between bacteria and host. Because of the clear advantages of generating specific bacterial foods for mechanistic studies in C. elegans, it is important to develop a robust protocol to generate high-quality bacterial foods commensurate with experimental requirements. Based on previous work by us and others, herein we present a protocol on how to generate these optimal bacterial food–based research tools.
KW - C. elegans
KW - E. coli
KW - bacteria
KW - liquid culture
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U2 - 10.1002/cptx.94
DO - 10.1002/cptx.94
M3 - Article
C2 - 32436649
AN - SCOPUS:85085156009
VL - 84
JO - Current protocols in toxicology / editorial board, Mahin D. Maines (editor-in-chief) ... [et al.]
JF - Current protocols in toxicology / editorial board, Mahin D. Maines (editor-in-chief) ... [et al.]
SN - 1934-9254
IS - 1
M1 - e94
ER -