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Can bacterial filaments regrow? Namba Protonic NanoMachine Project Osaka Univsersity, Japan. Guillaume Paradis Ismal Duchesne Simon Rainville

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www.ulaval.ca Why study bacterial motility? Toxicity and virulence increases with motility Antibiotics crisis Nanotechnology 2

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www.ulaval.ca E.coli near a surface 3

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www.ulaval.ca 3D biased random walk 4 JM Berg, JL Tymoczko, and L Stryer. Biochemistry

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www.ulaval.ca 5 How do bacteria move? Complex assemby of over 20 types of proteins 45nm-diameter rotative motor Rotation in both direction up 18000 rpm Proton powered

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www.ulaval.ca Filament structure 6 David E. Tanner and al. Theoretical and computational investigation of flagellin translocation and bacterial flagellum growth. Biophysical Journal

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www.ulaval.ca Methodology Cells are grown to the exponential phase of growth A first Fluorescent labelling is done Filaments are cut using a femtosecond laser Coordinates of the bacteria are noted A second labelling is done during a second growth period of 2h (37C) Cells are revisited 7

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www.ulaval.ca Experimental setup 8 Pulsed laser (1 khz) 80 fs, Near infrared Fluorescent microscopy at 546nm and 488nm Custom-made flow-cell Bacteria with 1 or 2 filaments

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www.ulaval.ca Cutting the filament Laser is opened Filament cut itself on the laser beam Acceleration of the rotation shows cutting 9

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www.ulaval.ca Results after 2h growth period 44 filaments were cut and revisited No regrowth was observed 10

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www.ulaval.ca What we know When the filament is cut, the cap is lost The cap is needed for filament growth FliD protein is constantly secreted HAP3 (FlgL) is needed for the cap to form If there was regrowth, should take minutes to be seen 11

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www.ulaval.ca Overexpression of FliD (HAP2) A genetically modified strain controlling the expression of the FliD protein was used The protein was overexpressed (doubled) during the 2h growth period 18 filaments were cut and revisited No regrowth was observed 12

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www.ulaval.ca Controls Bacteria in the same flow-cell left untouched were used as controls 90-95% of filaments still turning were bicolor 13

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www.ulaval.ca Controls (2) In one instance, a second filament had grown on a cell with a cut filament 14

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www.ulaval.ca Previous study 15 Turner and Berg (2012) Cells were sheared mechanically Let overnight at 7C Tends to show regrowth Turner L et al. J. Bacteriol. 2012;194:2437-2442

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www.ulaval.ca Conclusions No regrowth was observed Bicolor uncut filaments in the same flowcells were observed Even with higher levels of cap protein, cut filaments dont regrow In these conditions, bacterial filaments dont regrow 16

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www.ulaval.ca Future and ongoing experiments 17 A chain mechanism for flagellum growth, Nature, 2013 Rate of growth vs length of the filament Study of a proposed chain mechanism model

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www.ulaval.ca Thank you Dr Simon Rainville phD students Guillaume Paradis Ismael Duchesne Dr Kelly Hugues University of Utah Dr Marc Erhardt Helmholtz Centre for infection research, Germany 18