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Dual roles of capsular extracellular polymeric substances in the 3
photocatalytic inactivation of Escherichia coli: Comparison of 4
Escherichia coli BW25113 and its isogenic mutants 5
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Guocheng Huang,a Dehua Xia,a Taicheng An,b*, Tsz Wai Ng,a Ho Yin Yip,a Guiying Li,b Huijun 7
Zhao,c Po Keung Wonga* 8
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School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong SAR, 10
Chinaa; 11
State Key Laboratory of Organic Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese 12
Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, Chinab; 13
Centre for Clean Environment and Energy, Griffith School of Environment, Griffith University, 14
Queensland 4222, Australiac 15
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*Corresponding Authors: 17
Prof. Taicheng An, Tel: +86-20-85291501; Fax: +86-20-85290706; E-mail: [email protected] 18
Prof. Po Keung Wong, Tel: +852-39436383; Fax: +852-26035767; E-mail: [email protected] 19
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FT-IR Analysis. FT-IR was employed to probe the chemical and structural aspects of 21
the bacteria as well as the changes induced by the photocatalytic treatment. A FTS-4000 22
Varian Excalibur Series FT-IR spectrometer with attenuated total reflection (ATR) (Varian, 23
Palo Alto, CA) was used to collect the infrared spectra. Spectra from 4000 to 800 cm-1 were 24
collected with an interval of 2 cm-1, and the ordinate was express as absorbance. Each 25
spectrum was an average of 256 scans with automatic baseline correction. Samples were 26
prepared by the following procedure: the suspensions at different reaction times were 27
evaporated by a freeze-drying method, then the dry residue was supported on KBr pellets for 28
FT-IR measurement. Spectra were further analyzed in the amide I region (1700-1600 cm-1) to 29
extract potential changes on protein secondary structures upon the photocatalytic treatment. 30
The digitized amide I spectra was smoothed using Kubelka-Munk algorithm and converted 31
into its second derivative using the Savitzky-Golay algorithm with 9-points smoothing. 32
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Fluorescent Staining. In the non-partition system, the bacterial cells and TiO2 34
photocatalyst before and after photocatalytic treatment were collected and stained with the 35
dyes of LIVE/DEAD BacLightTM Bacterial Viability Kit (L7012, Molecular Probes, Inc., 36
Eugene, OR) following the procedure recommended by the manufacturer. After being 37
incubated at 25 °C in the dark for 15 min, the samples were transferred to the cover-slip and 38
examined using a fluorescence microscopy (Nikon ECLIPSE 80i, Japan) equipped with a 39
filter block NUV-2A consisting of excitation filter Ex 400-680 (Nikon, Japan) and Spot-K 40
slider CCD camera (Diagnostic instruments. Inc., USA). In addition, to get quantitative data 41
on the relative abundances of live and dead cells, the stained cells were also added to the 42
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wells of a microplate and mix thoroughly. Then the microplate was incubated at 25 °C in the 43
dark for 15 min, followed by fluorescence detection using a microplate reader (TECAN 44
Magellan, Tecan Group Ltd.). The excitation/emission wavelengths for live (green) and dead 45
(red) bacteria were 485/530 nm and 485/630 nm, respectively. The green-to-red fluorescence 46
ratio was calculated and a calibration curve was obtained by using bacterial mixtures with 47
known percentages of live cells. 48
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Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). The samples of bacteria cells interacted with 50
TiO2 in dark were collected and transferred onto acid-washed and poly-lysine coated 51
cover-slips. After pre-fixation in 5% glutaraldehyde solution for 1 h, the specimen was 52
washed twice by 0.1 M PBS at pH 7 and then post-fixed with 2% osmium tetraoxide (E.M. 53
grade, Electron Microscopy Sciences, Fort Washington, PA, USA) in dark for 1 h. Then the 54
specimens were washed twice by distilled water before further soaked and dehydrated in a 55
graded series of ethanol (50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 95 and 100%, and each for 10 min) and then 56
critical point dried within CO2 atmosphere. Then the dried specimens were mounted on stubs 57
and sputter-coated with gold and palladium. Finally, the prepared samples were observed on a 58
scanning electron microscope with Energy Dispersive X-Ray (EDX) detector. 59
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Extended Derjaguin-Landau-Verwey-Overbeek (XDLVO) modeling. To model the 61
interaction between bacteria and TiO2 particles, free energy curves were generated based on 62
extended Derjaguin-Landau-Verwey-Overbeek (XDLVO) theory, considering the total energy 63
of adhesion as the sum of the electrostatic double layer (EL) interaction energy, Lifshiitz-van 64
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der Waals (LW) interaction energy, and the Lewis acid-base (AB) (i.e., hydrophobic) 65
interaction energy:1-4 66
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ABLWELTOT GGGG (1) 68
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The EL interaction energies between bacterial cells and TiO2 can be calculated from the 70
surface potentials using the following equation: 71
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)2exp(1ln(
)exp(1
)exp(1ln
2
)(4
)(G
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220EL kd
kd
kd
rr
rr
tb
tb
tb
tbtbw
(2) 73
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Where 0 (=8.854×10−12 CV−1 m−1) is the dielectric permittivity in vacuum, w (=79) 75
is the relative permittivity of water; br and tr represent the equivalent radius of the bacteria 76
cells and TiO2, which were calculated as
WL, where L and W represent the length 77
and width of the bacteria cells and TiO2 agglomerates on SEM images; b and t are the 78
surface potentials of the bacterial cells and TiO2, respectively; k is the inverse of Derby 79
length with 2
12ii
9 ZC102.32 k where iC is the concentration of ion i , and iZ is 80
its valence value; d is the distance between bacterial cells and TiO2. 81
The LW interaction energies can be obtained using the following equations: 82
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tb
tb
rr
rr
d
A
6G LW (3) 84
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LWw
LWt
LWw
LWbdA 2
024 (4) 86
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Where A represents the Hamaker constant; 0d represents the minimum equilibrium 88
distance between the bacterial cells and TiO2 (0.158 nm); LW is the dispersive parameter of a 89
substance surface energy ( ), the subscripts of b , t and w represent the substances of 90
bacteria cells, TiO2 and water, respectively. 91
The AB interaction energies can be calculated by the following equations: 92
0
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AB exp2G0
dd
Grr
rr ABd
tbb
tb (5) 93
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tbtb
wtbwwtbwABdG
)()(2
0 (6) 95
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Where 0 is the characteristic decay length of AB interaction in water (0.6 nm); and 97
ABdG
0 represents the AB interaction corresponding to 0d ; the indices and - 98
represent the electron acceptor and the electron donor parameter of a substance surface 99
tension ( ). 100
The surface tension parameters of bacterial cells with TiO2 can be determined by 101
measuring the contact angles using three different probe liquids, with known surface tension 102
parameters and employing extended Young’s equation: 103
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lsls2cos1 LW
lLWsl (7) 105
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Where is the measured contact angle; l represents the probe liquids (water, glycerol 107
and diiodomethane), the surface tension parameters (i.e., LW , , and ) of the probe 108
liquids can be found in Table S2; and s represent the bacterial cells or TiO2. The contact 109
angles were measured with a contact angle meter (Kyowa Interface Science, CA- XP) using 110
bacterial cells or TiO2 lawns produced by filtering bacterial cells or TiO2 onto a 0.22 μm filter 111
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Table S1. The genetic information of wild type (E. coli BW25113) and its single-gene 114
knock out mutants (E. coli JW2034 and E. coli JW5917) 115
Strain Name Deleted Gene
CGSC mutation name
Gene function
E. coli BW25113 None No appropriable Nor appropriable
E. coli JW2034 cpsB cpsB747(del)::kan Colanic acid biosynthesis
E. coli JW5917 rcsC rcsC771(del)::kan Negative regulatory gene for
colanic acid synthesis
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Table S2 Surface tension parameters of the probe liquids in mJ/m-2 118
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Table S3. Band assignments for secondary structures of E. coli from derivative FT-IR spectra 128
Secondary structures Wavenumber (cm-1) Aggregated strands 1625-1610
β-sheet 1640-1630 unordered 1645-1640 α-helix 1657-1648
3-turn helix 1666-1659 Antiparallel β-sheet/aggregated strands 1680-1695
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Table S4. Contact angles 134
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LWL
L -L L
Water 21.8 25.5 25.5 72.8
Glycerol 34.0 3.9 57.4 63.9
Diiodomethane 50.8 0 0 50.8
TiO2 wild type cpsB- mutant rcsC- mutant
Water 11.4 25.4 14.1 24.6
Glycerol 12.6 23.2 22.1 17.3
Diiodomethane 57.9 65.9 60.4 73.9
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Fig S1. Normalized FT-IR spectra of wild type, cpsB- mutant and rcsC- mutant. Bands in the 139
spectral region (a) 3000-2600 cm-1 and (b) 1850-950 cm-1 in the integral absorbance were 140
used as the normalization factors, respectively.141
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Fig S2. The control experiments in non-partition system. (a) Light control, (b) Dark control, 143
and (c) Negative control. 144
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Fig S3. The control experiments in partition system. (a) Light control, (b) Dark control, and 146
(c) Negative control. 147
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Fig S4. Inactivation efficiency of wild type, cpsB- mutant and rcsC- mutant in (a) Fenton 150
reaction (10 mM H2O2, 0.2 mM Fe2SO4) system and (b) pure H2O2 (10 mM) system. Bars 151
represent standard deviations (n=3) and data were statistically significant at p < 0.001 152
calculated by one-way ANOVA. 153
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Fig S5. (a) Effects of photocatalytic treatment on wild type, cpsB- mutant and rcsC- mutant by 156
TiO2-UVA using microplate scale fluorochrome assay with the LIVE/DEAD BacLightTM 157
Bacterial Viability Kit. Bars represent standard deviations (n=3) and data were statistically 158
significant at p < 0.001 calculated by one-way ANOVA. (b) The standard curve of the assay. 159
No change of standard curve was observed for all the three strains when TiO2 is added, 160
indicating that TiO2 did not quench or enhance the fluorescence. 161
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Fig S6. Fluorescence microscopy images of different bacteria without TiO2. (a) Wild type, (b) 164
cpsB- mutant and (c) rcsC-. The scale bars are 20 µm. 165
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Fig S7. SEM images of E. coli cells after 30 min treatment of contact with TiO2 P25 168
nanoparticles in dark: (a) wild type, (b) cpsB- mutant and (c) rcsC- mutant; The EDX spectra 169
(d, e and f) were obtained by scanning the red squares of corresponding SEM images (a, b 170
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Fig S8. Zeta potential of TiO2, wild type , cpsB- mutant and rcsC- at different pH-value in 175
0.9% saline solution (154 mM NaCl). The test pH for the photocatalytic inactivation was 6.5. 176
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