Substrate viscosity plays an important role in bacterial adhesion under fluid flow.

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Abstract
Many materials used in the medical settings such as catheters and contact lenses as well as most biological tissues are not purely elastic, but rather viscoelastic. While substrate elasticity has been investigated for its influence on bacterial adhesion, the impact of substrate viscosity has not been explored. Here, the importance of considering substrate viscosity is explored by using polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) as the substrate material, whose mechanical properties can be tuned from predominantly elastic to viscous by varying cross-linking degree. Interfacial rheology and atomic force microscopy analysis prove that PDMS with a low cross-linking degree exhibits both low stiffness and high viscosity. This degree of viscoelasticity confers to PDMS a remarkable stress relaxation, a good capability to deform and an increased adhesive force. Bacterial adhesion assays were conducted under flow conditions to study the impact of substrate viscosity on Escherichia coli adhesion. The viscous PDMS not only enhanced E. coli adhesion but also conferred greater resistance to desorption against shear stress at air/liquid interface, compared to the PDMS with high crosslinking degree. These findings highlight the importance to consider substrate viscosity while studying bacterial adhesion. The current work provides new insights to an improved understanding of how bacteria interact with complex viscoelastic environments.
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Authors Jules D P Valentin, Xiao-Hua Qin, Claudia Fessele, Hervé Straub, Henny C van der Mei, Matthias T Buhmann, Katharina Maniura-Weber, Qun Ren
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Journal Journal of colloid and interface science
Year 2019
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S0021-9797(19)30597-1
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