Method for screening anti-adherent compounds on polymers for preventing biofilm formation
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The instant invention provides a live labeling microorganism assay for screening a one-bead one-compound library to identify synthetic anti-adherent compounds for blocking biofilm formation. The compounds of libraries may be peptides, small molecules, nucleic acids, other types of molecules or a combination of the foregoing. The live labeling microorganisms are incubated with a one-bead one-compound library for a long period with fresh-labeled bacteria and nutrition replacement in regular intervals. Those beads without bacterial adhesion are transferred into nutritional agar for the culture. The true anti-adherent beads are isolated and the sequences of each isolated compound-bead are determined with sequencer. The anti-adherent compounds identified in this invention are proved to possess long-term effect of blocking bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation. Thus the instant invention provides a unique and powerful method to identify anti-adherent compounds from library more quickly and reliably than current state-of-the-art technology allows.
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