Influence of Carbon Sources on Quantification of Deuterium Incorporation in Heterophic Bacteria: A Raman-Stable Isotope Labeling Approach

in: Analytical Chemistry (2020)
Azemtsop, Georgette; Taubert, Martin; Guo, Shuxia; Houhou, Rola; Bocklitz, Thomas W.; Küsel, Kirsten; Rösch, Petra; Popp, Jürgen
A rapid and reliable method for the differentiation between active and inactive bacteria at single cell level is urgently needed in many fields including clinical diagnosis and environmental microbiology, to understand the contribution of metabolically active bacteria in fundamental processes triggering environmental and public health risks. Here, using heavy water (D2O) with Raman-stable isotope labeling (Raman-D2O), we evaluated the reliability of the quantification of deuterium uptake, a well-known indicator for the general metabolic activity of bacteria. For this purpose, we based our study on the quantification of deuterium assimilation from heavy water into single bacterial cells to check the influence of carbon source and bacterial identity on the deuterium uptake. We show that compared to complex carbon substrates, the deuterium assimilation is higher in presence of simpler substrates such as sugars but differs significantly among bacterial isolates. Despite this variability, the developed classification models could differentiate deuterium labeled and non-labeled single cells with high sensitivity and specificity. Highlighting the variability between single bacterial cells, the study emphasizes the challenges in establishing a threshold in terms of deuterium uptake to distinguish deuterium-labeled and non-labeled cells. Overall, we show that the Raman-D2O approach, when coupled with chemometrics, constitutes a powerful approach for monitoring single bacterial cells.

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