Garcia CA, Gardner JG. Development and evaluation of an agar capture system (ACS) for high-throughput screening of insoluble particulate substrates with bacterial growth and enzyme activity assays.
J Microbiol Methods 2021;
190:106337. [PMID:
34571109 DOI:
10.1016/j.mimet.2021.106337]
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Abstract
We describe a method for containing insoluble particulates for use as substrates in either bacterial growth or enzyme assays. This method was designed for high-throughput screening of environmental or engineered bacteria. Benchmarking this method with several model bacteria uncovered phenotypes not observable with the particulate substrates alone.
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