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Treatment of Mycoplasma Contamination in Cell Cultures with Plasmocin
A high percentage of cell lines are chronically infected with various mycoplasma species. The addition of antibiotics that are particularly effective against these contaminants to the culture medium during a limited period of time is a simple, inexpensive, and very practical approach for decontamina...
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2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3470117/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23091342 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/267678 |
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author | Uphoff, Cord C. Denkmann, Sabine-A. Drexler, Hans G. |
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description | A high percentage of cell lines are chronically infected with various mycoplasma species. The addition of antibiotics that are particularly effective against these contaminants to the culture medium during a limited period of time is a simple, inexpensive, and very practical approach for decontaminating cell cultures. Here, we examined the effectiveness of the new antimycoplasma compound Plasmocin that has been employed routinely to cleanse chronically infected cell lines. In a first round of treatment 45 out of 58 (78%) mycoplasma-positive cell lines could be cured. In a second attempt using back-up cryopreserved original cells, four additional cell lines were cured; thus, the overall cure rate was 84%. Even if the mycoplasma contamination was not eradicated by Plasmocin, the parallel treatment with several other antibiotics (Baytril, BM-Cyclin, Ciprobay, MRA, or MycoZap) led to the cure of all 58 cell lines. The successful decontamination was permanent as mycoplasmas were no longer detected at day +14 posttreatment and at later time points as examined by PCR which is the most sensitive and specific mycoplasma detection method. Collectively, our results highlight certain antibiotics as effective antimycoplasma reagents and support the therapeutic rationale for their use in the eradication of this notorious cell culture contaminant. |
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spelling | pubmed-34701172012-10-22 Treatment of Mycoplasma Contamination in Cell Cultures with Plasmocin Uphoff, Cord C. Denkmann, Sabine-A. Drexler, Hans G. J Biomed Biotechnol Research Article A high percentage of cell lines are chronically infected with various mycoplasma species. The addition of antibiotics that are particularly effective against these contaminants to the culture medium during a limited period of time is a simple, inexpensive, and very practical approach for decontaminating cell cultures. Here, we examined the effectiveness of the new antimycoplasma compound Plasmocin that has been employed routinely to cleanse chronically infected cell lines. In a first round of treatment 45 out of 58 (78%) mycoplasma-positive cell lines could be cured. In a second attempt using back-up cryopreserved original cells, four additional cell lines were cured; thus, the overall cure rate was 84%. Even if the mycoplasma contamination was not eradicated by Plasmocin, the parallel treatment with several other antibiotics (Baytril, BM-Cyclin, Ciprobay, MRA, or MycoZap) led to the cure of all 58 cell lines. The successful decontamination was permanent as mycoplasmas were no longer detected at day +14 posttreatment and at later time points as examined by PCR which is the most sensitive and specific mycoplasma detection method. Collectively, our results highlight certain antibiotics as effective antimycoplasma reagents and support the therapeutic rationale for their use in the eradication of this notorious cell culture contaminant. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-10-02 /pmc/articles/PMC3470117/ /pubmed/23091342 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/267678 Text en Copyright © 2012 Cord C. Uphoff et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Uphoff, Cord C. Denkmann, Sabine-A. Drexler, Hans G. Treatment of Mycoplasma Contamination in Cell Cultures with Plasmocin |
title | Treatment of Mycoplasma Contamination in Cell Cultures with Plasmocin |
title_full | Treatment of Mycoplasma Contamination in Cell Cultures with Plasmocin |
title_fullStr | Treatment of Mycoplasma Contamination in Cell Cultures with Plasmocin |
title_full_unstemmed | Treatment of Mycoplasma Contamination in Cell Cultures with Plasmocin |
title_short | Treatment of Mycoplasma Contamination in Cell Cultures with Plasmocin |
title_sort | treatment of mycoplasma contamination in cell cultures with plasmocin |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3470117/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23091342 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/267678 |
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