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In the experiments to compare cell envelopes of bacteria grown planktonically with those grown as biofilms, bacteria were grown on brain heart infusion agar supplemented as noted above.
In view of these lines of evidence suggesting that nontypeable H influenzae grows as a biofilm during human respiratory tract infection, the goals of the present study are to 1) Develop an assay to study biofilms of nontypeable H. influenzae in vitro; 2) Characterize the extent to which isolates from the middle ear fluid of children with otitis media and from the sputum of adults with COPD form biofilms; 3) Begin to elucidate the characteristics of the outer membrane antigens of nontypeable H. influenzae during growth as a biofilm; and 4) Preliminarily assess the role of pili in biofilm formation.
The observation that the expression of epitopes on outer membrane proteins P2, P5 and P6 was similar in biofilms and agar (Figure 4) indicates that the alteration in expression of the epitope on lipooligosaccharide is not explained by slow growth, but represents altered expression of lipooligosacharide under different growth conditions.
This epitope appears to be expressed at similar levels as in biofilms when the bacteria are grown on chocolate agar and in brain heart infusion broth (data not shown).
These observations suggest that the assay is detecting bacteria as biofilms rather than simply measuring planktonic bacteria adhering to plastic wells.