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Development of an in situ Culture-Free Screening Test for the Rapid Detection of Staphylococcus aureus within Healthcare Environments Alex Sinclair*, Lauren E Mulcahy, Lynsey Geldeard, Samerah Malik, Mark D Fielder* and Adam Le Gresley* Bacterial Culture Bacterial isolates were obtained from a clinical setting as a result of both MRSA (MRSA numbers 1-11,13,14,16,17 and 19) and MSSA ( MSSA numbers 58,59.61,62, 63,64, 68, 69,71,72) infection, and were part of a cohort of bacteria taken from UK hospitals. E.coli samples were a combination of clinical isolates and wild type strains (E.coli 1-10), and coagulase negative Staphylococci include strains of S.epidermidis, S. warneri, S.hominus and M. luteus, and were obtained from clinical isolates from Sutton hospital. All bacteria were cultured initially on Brain Heart infusion agar, after which they were subcultured twice onto nutrient agar overnight at 37 °C, under aerobic conditions. Each bacterial isolate possesses individual characteristics, and thus displays a variance in the amount of coagulase produced, and therefore there is a degree of variance in results, lending to a greater amount of error in the results depicted. Preparation of the LGX solution A 100 μM and 50 μM solution of compound 3 was prepared by dissolving it in 2.5 % methanol followed by dilution in 1 x PBS. Solutions of Tris Base (0.05 M) and NaCl (0.1 M) in deionised H 2 O were added to the solution until an optimum pH of 8.5 was achieved. The appropriate amount of human prothrombin in 1 x PBS was then added to produce final prothrombin concentrations of 83.6 nM and 41.8 nM, respectively. The resulting solution was termed “LGX“. The concentrations of LGX, subsequently discussed, refer to the concentration of the active constituent compound 3. Testing procedure the efficacy of LGX as a selective and sensitive means of detecting S. aureus In order to detect the presence of staphylocoagulase and thus the efficacy of LGX, varying cell concentrations (10 6 , 10 5 , 10 3 , 10 2 CFU/mL (50 μM LGX) and 10 4 , 10 3 , 10 2 , 10 0 CFU/mL (100 μM LGX) were added to a microtitre plate (Nunclon 96 well plates) in a 1:1 ratio with either 50 μM or 100 μM of prepared LGX solution. This provided a final LGX concentration of 25 μM or 50 μM, respectively. The relative fluorescence was then recorded every fifteen minutes over a six hour time period (λ ex. = 488 nm and λ em. = 525 nm). Positive controls used in each experiment were a control strain of MRSA (NCTC 12493), and the negative control was a clinical isolate of E. coli. A 1:1 ratio of both the 100 μM and 50 μΜ of LGX solution with 1 x PBS was used, and termed “LGX alone”. Fluorescence intensity was determined at 15 minute intervals over a 6 hour time period and n=3 samples were assayed in each case. We assayed 15 Strains of MRSA at varying cell concentration (10 6 , 10 5 , 10 3 , 10 2 CFU/mL (50 μM LGX) and 10 4 , 10 3 , 10 2 , 10 0 CFU/mL (100 μM) LGX)) with equal volume of both 50 μM and 100 μM LGX, respectively, to give a final LGX concentration of 25 μM or 50 μM, respectively, in addition to a strain of E-coli, which served as a negative control as described above. 1 Electronic Supplementary Material (ESI) for Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2013

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Development of an in situ Culture-Free Screening Test for the Rapid Detection of Staphylococcus aureus within Healthcare Environments Alex Sinclair*, Lauren E Mulcahy, Lynsey Geldeard, Samerah Malik, Mark D Fielder* and Adam Le Gresley*

Bacterial Culture

Bacterial isolates were obtained from a clinical setting as a result of both MRSA (MRSA numbers 1-11,13,14,16,17 and 19) and MSSA ( MSSA numbers 58,59.61,62, 63,64, 68, 69,71,72) infection, and were part of a cohort of bacteria taken from UK hospitals. E.coli samples were a combination of clinical isolates and wild type strains (E.coli 1-10), and coagulase negative Staphylococci include strains of S.epidermidis, S. warneri, S.hominus and M. luteus, and were obtained from clinical isolates from Sutton hospital. All bacteria were cultured initially on Brain Heart infusion agar, after which they were subcultured twice onto nutrient agar overnight at 37 °C, under aerobic conditions. Each bacterial isolate possesses individual characteristics, and thus displays a variance in the amount of coagulase produced, and therefore there is a degree of variance in results, lending to a greater amount of error in the results depicted.

Preparation of the LGX solution

A 100 μM and 50 μM solution of compound 3 was prepared by dissolving it in 2.5 % methanol followed by dilution in 1 x PBS. Solutions of Tris Base (0.05 M) and NaCl (0.1 M) in deionised H2O were added to the solution until an optimum pH of 8.5 was achieved. The appropriate amount of human prothrombin in 1 x PBS was then added to produce final prothrombin concentrations of 83.6 nM and 41.8 nM, respectively. The resulting solution was termed “LGX“. The concentrations of LGX, subsequently discussed, refer to the concentration of the active constituent compound 3.

Testing procedure the efficacy of LGX as a selective and sensitive means of detecting S. aureus

In order to detect the presence of staphylocoagulase and thus the efficacy of LGX, varying cell concentrations (106, 105, 103, 102 CFU/mL (50 μM LGX) and 104, 103, 102, 100 CFU/mL (100 μM LGX) were added to a microtitre plate (Nunclon 96 well plates) in a 1:1 ratio with either 50 μM or 100 μM of prepared LGX solution. This provided a final LGX concentration of 25 μM or 50 μM, respectively. The relative fluorescence was then recorded every fifteen minutes over a six hour time period (λex. = 488 nm and λem. = 525 nm). Positive controls used in each experiment were a control strain of MRSA (NCTC 12493), and the negative control was a clinical isolate of E. coli. A 1:1 ratio of both the 100 μM and 50 μΜ of LGX solution with 1 x PBS was used, and termed “LGX alone”. Fluorescence intensity was determined at 15 minute intervals over a 6 hour time period and n=3 samples were assayed in each case. We assayed 15 Strains of MRSA at varying cell concentration (106, 105, 103, 102 CFU/mL (50 μM LGX) and 104, 103, 102, 100 CFU/mL (100 μM) LGX)) with equal volume of both 50 μM and 100 μM LGX, respectively, to give a final LGX concentration of 25 μM or 50 μM, respectively, in addition to a strain of E-coli, which served as a negative control as described above.

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As can be observed in figure 1, the results of all concentrations of MRSA (average of all 15 samples per data set illustrated) are plotted against a negative control and LGX alone, there is a significantly greater increase in fluorescence intensity in MRSA samples across the 6 hour time period. Taking a lower threshold limit of 20,000 relative fluorescence units (RFU) as a positive result, it can be seen that at a 25µM concentration of LGX, and at all 103 CFU/mL MRSA/MSSA, there is a clear positive result yet, however as expected, this is lower than the effect observed with the 50µM LGX. As with the 50 µM data an instantaneous positive reaction can also be observed. This data shows that the compound harbours the ability to rapidly detect SA at low concentrations.

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Figure 1 – The efficacy of 25μM LGX in detecting MRSA concentrations as low as

102 CFU/mL. Average of ten to fifteen bacterial strains (n=3). Error bars represent

standard deviation.

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The data demonstrated in Figure 2 illustrates that, similarly to 50 µM LGX and 500 µM coumarin, there is significantly more fluorescence produced by LGX, when compared to the coumarin system. These results show that at low concentrations, the LGX system demonstrates considerable efficacy in terms of speed of detection, as well sensitivity, and is a vast improvement on the existing coumarin system.

Figure 2 - The efficacy of 25 μM LGX at demonstrating both selectivity and

sensitivity in detecting coagulase positive MRSA and MSSA, compared to the

efficacy 100 μM coumarin, in bacterial concentrations of 103 CFU/mL. Average of

ten to fifteen bacterial strains (n=3). Error bars represent standard deviation.

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Rhod-(Arg-(CBz)2-NHBoc)2 (7)

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====== GRADIENT CHANNEL =====GPNAM1 SINE.100GPNAM2 SINE.100GPZ1 80.00 %GPZ2 20.10 %P16 1000.00 usecND0 2TD 256SFO1 150.9134 MHzFIDRES 97.656288 HzSW 165.658 ppmFnMODE Echo-AntiechoSI 2048SF 600.1300000 MHzWDW QSINESSB 2LB 0.00 HzGB 0PC 1.00SI 1024MC2 echo-antiechoSF 150.9028090 MHzWDW QSINESSB 2LB 0.00 HzGB 0

Rhodamine-(Arg-(Cbz)2-Pro-Val-NHBoc)2 (5) echo/antiecho edited HSQC w/adiabatic bilevel decoupling w/matched adiabatic sweep

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0.90

0.91

0.92

1.01

1.31

1.32

1.32

1.33

1.33

1.34

1.35

1.42

1.42

1.43

1.74

1.75

1.76

1.77

1.78

1.86

1.87

1.99

2.00

2.01

2.02

2.03

2.11

2.28

2.29

2.29

3.04

3.24

3.25

3.26

3.28

3.68

3.70

4.16

4.49

4.50

4.51

6.64

6.65

6.73

6.74

6.75

7.18

7.19

7.20

7.20

7.22

7.42

7.74

7.75

7.78

7.80

7.83

7.89

7.99

8.04

8.05

8.18

8.45

8.46

10.1

110

.11

12.3

0

7.79

18.0

0

15.6

7

2.12

4.10

2.16

11.2

6

1.94

1.39

1.73

2.58

1.71

2.59

4.56

1.78

3.77

1.61

0.66

1.61

1.36

NAME ASLG57D2EXPNO 16PROCNO 1Date_ 20110210Time 15.29INSTRUM av600PROBHD 5 mm PATXI 1H/PULPROG noesygppr1dTD 65536SOLVENT MeODNS 16DS 4SWH 12345.679 HzFIDRES 0.188380 HzAQ 2.6542580 secRG 22.6DW 40.500 usecDE 8.36 usecTE 298.4 KD1 4.00000000 secD8 0.01000000 secD12 0.00002000 secD16 0.00020000 secZGOPTNS -DFLAG_BLK

======== CHANNEL f1 ========NUC1 1HP0 7.00 usecP1 7.00 usecSI 65536SF 600.1300000 MHzWDW EMSSB 0LB 0.30 HzGB 0PC 1.00

Rhodamine-(Arg-Pro-Val-NHBoc)2 (4)

Rhodamine-(Arg-Pro-Val-NHBoc)2 (3)

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ppm

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NAME ASLG57D2EXPNO 24PROCNO 1Date_ 20110211Time 10.16INSTRUM av600PROBHD 5 mm PATXI 1H/PULPROG cosygpprqfTD 4096SOLVENT MeODNS 16DS 8SWH 9615.385 HzFIDRES 2.347506 HzAQ 0.2130420 secRG 128DW 52.000 usecDE 6.50 usecTE 298.4 KD0 0.00000300 secD1 2.00000000 secD11 0.03000000 secD12 0.00002000 secD16 0.00020000 secIN0 0.00010395 sec

======== CHANNEL f1 ========NUC1 1HP0 7.00 usecP1 7.00 usecND0 1TD 256SFO1 600.1329 MHzFIDRES 37.576378 HzSW 16.029 ppmFnMODE QFSI 2048SF 600.1300000 MHzWDW SINESSB 0LB 0.00 HzGB 0PC 1.00SI 2048MC2 QFSF 600.1300000 MHzWDW SINESSB 0LB 0.00 HzGB 0

Rhodamine-(Arg-Pro-Val-NHBoc)2 (3) COSY

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17.25

18.36

22.34

24.75

24.90

27.31

28.85

29.23

29.35

30.23

35.56

40.72

44.10

48.30

48.58

53.70

57.97

60.43

73.31

79.20

82.66

107.38

114.14

115.57

123.72

124.60

126.22

128.03

129.99

135.44

140.71

151.49

156.71

157.44

163.85

169.80

171.04

172.17

173.20

NAME ASLG57D2EXPNO 23PROCNO 1Date_ 20110210Time 20.51INSTRUM av600PROBHD 5 mm PATXI 1H/PULPROG zgpg30TD 65536SOLVENT MeODNS 5120DS 4SWH 36057.691 HzFIDRES 0.550197 HzAQ 0.9088159 secRG 322DW 13.867 usecDE 6.50 usecTE 298.4 KD1 2.00000000 secD11 0.03000000 sec

======== CHANNEL f1 ========NUC1 13CP1 12.00 usecSI 32768SF 150.9028090 MHzWDW EMSSB 0LB 1.00 HzGB 0PC 1.40

Rhodamine-(Arg-Pro-Val-NHBoc)2 (4)

Rhodamine-(Arg-Pro-Val-NHBoc)2 (3)

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20

NAME ASLG57D2EXPNO 13PROCNO 2Date_ 20110210Time 13.21INSTRUM av600PROBHD 5 mm PATXI 1H/PULPROG hsqcedetgpsisp2.4TD 1024SOLVENT MeODNS 4DS 32SWH 9615.385 HzFIDRES 9.390024 HzAQ 0.0532980 secRG 1DW 52.000 usecDE 6.50 usecTE 299.4 KCNST2 145.0000000CNST17 -0.5000000D0 0.00000300 secD1 1.50000000 secD2 0.00344828 secD4 0.00172414 secD11 0.03000000 secD16 0.00020000 secD21 0.00360000 secD24 0.00089000 secIN0 0.00002000 secL0 0TD0 2

======== CHANNEL f1 ========NUC1 1HP1 7.00 usecP2 14.00 usecP28 0.00 usecND0 2TD 256SFO1 150.9134 MHzFIDRES 97.656288 HzSW 165.658 ppmFnMODE Echo-AntiechoSI 2048SF 600.1300000 MHzWDW QSINESSB 2LB 0.00 HzGB 0PC 1.40SI 1024MC2 echo-antiechoSF 150.9028090 MHzWDW QSINESSB 2LB 0.00 HzGB 0

Rhodamine-(Arg-Pro-Val-NHBoc)2 (3) HSQC

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618.3317z=2

520.2710z=2

211.0965z=1

391.2844z=1

234.2065z=1

824.4411z=3

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Observed Data

618.3317z=2

618.8327z=2

619.3349z=2

619.8374z=2

Theoretical Isotope Model: [M + 2H]2+

618.3322

618.8337

619.3352

619.8366

NL:6.42E6

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NL:1.10E4

C 62 H 86 N 14 O 13 HH: C 62 H 88 N 14 O 13

p (gss, s /p:40) Chrg 2R: 100000 Res .Pwr . @FWHM

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