A METHOD FOR SPECIFICALLY LABELING LIVING BACTERIA

摘要

The present invention concerns a method for detecting specifically living bacteria of a given category of bacteria in a sample comprising bacteria, the method comprising the steps of:
a) incubating said bacteria of said sample with an analog of a monosaccharide compound, said monosaccharide being an endogenous monosaccharide residue of glycans of the outer membrane of such given category of bacteria, the said endogenous monosaccharide residue comprising an ulosonic acid or ulosonate salt residue, the said analog of a monosaccharide compound being a modified monosaccharide substituted at a given position by a first reactive chemical group capable to react with a second reactive group of a detectable molecule, and
b) contacting said bacteria with a said detectable molecule comprising a said second reactive group, for generating the reaction of said first reactive group of said analog residue incorporated within said glycans of the outer membrane of said bacteria with said second reactive group of said detectable, and
c) detecting whether said bacteria comprise said detectable molecule bound to the glycans of their outer membrane.