Magnetic Bead-Based Separation (MBS) of Pneumococcal Serotypes
York, A.; Mbodj, S.; Yolda-Carr, D.; Hislop, M.; Weinberger, D. M.; Wyllie, A. L.
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The separation of pneumococcal serotypes from a complex polymicrobial mixture may be required for different applications. For instance, a minority strain could be present at a low frequency in a clinical sample, making it difficult to identify and isolate by traditional culture-based methods. We therefore developed an assay to separate mixed pneumococcal samples using serotype-specific antiserum and a magnetic bead-based separation method. Using qPCR and colony counting methods, we first show that serotypes (12F, 23F, 3, 14, 19A and 15A) present at [~]0.1% of a dual serotype mixture can be enriched to between 10% and 90% of the final sample. We demonstrate two applications for this method: extraction of a known pneumococcal serotype from saliva samples and efficient purification of capsule switch variants from experimental transformation experiments. Moreover, this method may have further laboratory or clinical applications when the selection of specific serotypes is required.
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