Monitoring Metal Ion Binding in Single-Layer Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms Using ATR−IR Spectroscopy
- 12 November 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Langmuir
- Vol. 22 (1), 286-291
- https://doi.org/10.1021/la051660q
Abstract
The binding of metal ions to Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 cells attached to a ZnSe surface has been observed in this research through cation exchange experiments using ATR-IR spectroscopy. A biofilm consisting of a single layer of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 cells was formed on a ZnSe prism by flowing a bacterial suspension in a 0.03 mol L(-)(1) NaNO(3) solution at pH 5.0 across its surface. Exposure of the biofilm to chromium(III) nitrate solution resulted in increases in all band absorbances. This absorbance increase has been attributed to the binding of chromium(III) to the bacterial exopolymers associated with the prism surface. The chromium(III) binding causes the exopolymers to contract and move the bacterial cell closer to the ZnSe surface. Further study of chromium(III) ion exchange using a mutant P. aeruginosa with a truncated lipopolysaccharide (LPS) chain resulted in much smaller absorbance changes. This observation supports the view that the extension of bacterial exopolymers and hence the distance of the bacterial cell from the surface is strongly influenced by environmental factors such as the presence of metal cations. Following chromium(III) cation exchange, the bacterial band absorbances remained constant even when the bacteria were washed with a 0.03 mol L(-)(1) NaNO(3) solution, indicating that the chromium(III) was irreversibly bound. Ion exchange with nickel(II) and cobalt(II) nitrate solutions within identical biofilms showed that these cations caused relatively small increases in absorbances that were reversible, indicating that nickel(II) and cobalt(II) are less strongly bound than chromium(III) within P. aeruginosa biofilms. The absence of discernible IR spectral changes with metal binding appears to indicate a predominantly electrostatic mechanism for binding of Cr(III), Ni(II), and Co(II) ions by bacteria in the early stages of biofilm formation.Keywords
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