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Design and use of multiplexed chemostat arrays.


ABSTRACT: Chemostats are continuous culture systems in which cells are grown in a tightly controlled, chemically constant environment where culture density is constrained by limiting specific nutrients.(1,2) Data from chemostats are highly reproducible for the measurement of quantitative phenotypes as they provide a constant growth rate and environment at steady state. For these reasons, chemostats have become useful tools for fine-scale characterization of physiology through analysis of gene expression(3-6) and other characteristics of cultures at steady-state equilibrium.(7) Long-term experiments in chemostats can highlight specific trajectories that microbial populations adopt during adaptive evolution in a controlled environment. In fact, chemostats have been used for experimental evolution since their invention.(8) A common result in evolution experiments is for each biological replicate to acquire a unique repertoire of mutations.(9-13) This diversity suggests that there is much left to be discovered by performing evolution experiments with far greater throughput. We present here the design and operation of a relatively simple, low cost array of miniature chemostats-or ministats-and validate their use in determination of physiology and in evolution experiments with yeast. This approach entails growth of tens of chemostats run off a single multiplexed peristaltic pump. The cultures are maintained at a 20 ml working volume, which is practical for a variety of applications. It is our hope that increasing throughput, decreasing expense, and providing detailed building and operation instructions may also motivate research and industrial application of this design as a general platform for functionally characterizing large numbers of strains, species, and growth parameters, as well as genetic or drug libraries.

SUBMITTER: Miller AW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3610398 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Design and use of multiplexed chemostat arrays.

Miller Aaron W AW   Befort Corrie C   Kerr Emily O EO   Dunham Maitreya J MJ  

Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE 20130223 72


Chemostats are continuous culture systems in which cells are grown in a tightly controlled, chemically constant environment where culture density is constrained by limiting specific nutrients.(1,2) Data from chemostats are highly reproducible for the measurement of quantitative phenotypes as they provide a constant growth rate and environment at steady state. For these reasons, chemostats have become useful tools for fine-scale characterization of physiology through analysis of gene expression(3  ...[more]

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