Biofilm Effect, Growth and Motility of Waste Cheese Whey (WCW) on Bacteria

Waste Cheese Whey (WCW) is a liquid side that remains after the cheese making process and represents 95% of the initial milk volume and is considered an important contaminant due to high chemical oxygen demand. Dry matter in whey is up to 7%. These dry ingredients are; lactose, proteins, salts, lipids, lactic acid, citric acid, minerals, vitamins, urea and uric acids. Lactose form 75% of the dries matter in whey. A protein account for 12-14% of this dries matter. This content represents a good opportunity for valuation of whey, an important industrial by-product (for microbial growth) [1-6]. The removal of whey is an important pollution problem especially for the countries connected to the milk economy. Only half of the whey produced each year is converted into useful crops such as food and animal feed and is considered a backwater pollutant [1-3,6]. Microbial biofilm formation involves a variety of surfactant molecules categorized by their chemical composition and microbial origin [1-3,6]. Biofilms provide an environmentally friendly and sustainable alternative in addition to biological production via microbial fermentation from a cheap raw material such as whey [7]. Received: July 16, 2019 Published: July 31, 2019


Introduction
Waste Cheese Whey (WCW) is a liquid side that remains after the cheese making process and represents 95% of the initial milk volume and is considered an important contaminant due to high chemical oxygen demand. Dry matter in whey is up to 7%. These dry ingredients are; lactose, proteins, salts, lipids, lactic acid, citric acid, minerals, vitamins, urea and uric acids. Lactose form 75% of the dries matter in whey. A protein account for 12-14% of this dries matter. This content represents a good opportunity for valuation of whey, an important industrial by-product (for microbial growth) [1][2][3][4][5][6]. The removal of whey is an important pollution problem especially for the countries connected to the milk economy. Only half of the whey produced each year is converted into useful crops such as food and animal feed and is considered a backwater pollutant [1][2][3]6]. Microbial biofilm formation involves a variety of surfactant molecules categorized by their chemical composition and microbial origin [1][2][3]6]. Biofilms provide an environmentally friendly and sustainable alternative in addition to biological production via microbial fermentation from a cheap raw material such as whey [7].
Motility plays an important role in the virulence of P. aeruginosa.
This feature plays an important role in the mobilization and colonization of bacteria in different environments, the attachment of bacteria to the surfaces and the formation of biofilm. P. aeruginosa is unusual in that it has three different mobility: swimming in the aquatic environment and in low agar concentrations (0.3 % agar) to flagellum; IV type pilus on solid surfaces mediated swarming and recently observed, swimming over semi-solid (viscous) medium (0.5 to 0.7 % agar). Swimming is generally defined as a dendriticlike colonial appearance and a social phenomenon that typically involves coordinated and rapid movement of bacteria along a semi-solid surface [8][9][10]. The swarming requires the production of a functional flagellum and rhamnolipid surfactant. The sliding motion is separate from the swimming motion because swimming is the movement required to move on an aqueous, viscous semisolid surface while allowing movement in a liquid medium of relatively low viscosity [11]. The swarming requires the production of a functional flagellum and rhamnolipid surfactant. The sliding motion is separate from the swimming motion because swimming is the movement required to move on an aqueous, viscous semisolid surface while allowing movement in a liquid medium of relatively low viscosity [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19].
During log-phase growth, P. aeruginosa has a single and polar flagellum that allows for swimming movement. Swarming is a flagellum-dependent community behavior on surfaces. This phenomenon includes many bacteria, including those using polar flagellum during swimming; aggregation is associated with the production of multiple lateral flagella [20]. Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a very rarely resistant nosocomial pathogen. Plants can infect various hosts such as nematodes and mammals. In humans, patients with cystic fibrosis are important opportunistic pathogens in compromised individuals, such as severe burns and impaired immunity [2].
As a result, whey has become the subject of evaluation in order to obtain different value-added bio-products or to reduce pollution potential. In this context, whey is thought to be a convenient, cheap and attractive source of biofilm formation by P. aeruginosa [21].

Materials and Methods
Microorganism P. aeruginosa (ATCC 27853), obtained from the ATCC and used this study.

Waste Cheese Whey
Waste cheese whey (WCW) was collected from commercial cheese factories in Malatya, Turkey. This waste was filtered for removing crude impurities and then, WCW autoclaved, and then used.

Growth Conditions
Pseudomonas aeruginosa was firstly cultured in Luria-Bertani

Biofilm Formation
After the incubation, the supernatant was removed. Biofilm tubes were washed four times with 1 x phosphate buffered saline (PBS) to eliminate any remaining cells. Cells attached to the tubes were then fixed with ethanol (99%) for 15 min room temperature and stained with 1% crystal violet. After staining, excess crystal violet was eliminated with water, and 33 % acetic acid was used to dissolve the remaining dye. Biofilm mass was finally determined as a function of the concentration of this dye based on the absorbance at 570 nm [22][23][24][25][26]. Biofilm formation was standardized to growth with the biofilm index (BFI), which was calculated. The extent of biofilm formation was determined by applying this formula: "BFI = (AB -CW) ⁄ G in which BFI is the "Biofilm Formation Index was defined as the average percentage of bacteria grown as biofilms [27].", AB is the OD 570 nm of stained attached bacteria and CW is the OD 570 nm of stained control tubes containing only bacteria-free medium, G is the OD 600 nm of cells growth in suspended culture" [28][29]. OD 600 and OD 570 were measured using a spectrophotometer directly from tubes. Growth curves were established by plotting the log10 cfu/ml as a function of time. Bacterial growth was determined by measuring the absorbance at 600 nm (OD 600 ) by a spectrophotometer.

Motility
Swimming and swarming assays was determined using modified methods with WCW as the substrate. Swimming. Swimming plates were composed of 0.3 % Nutrient Agar, supplemented with 10 % WCW and sterile phosphate-buffered saline supplemented with 10 % WCW. Swarming. Swarm plates were composed of 0.5 % Bacto Agar and 8 g/L of nutrient broth, supplemented with 10 % WCW and sterile PBS buffer supplemented with 10 % WCW petri dishes.
Petri dishes dried overnight at room temperature. Cells were point inoculated with a sterile pipette 6 μl, and the plates were incubated at 25 and 37 °C for 24 hours, respectively. Motility was then assessed qualitatively by examining the circular turbid zone formed by the bacterial cells migrating away from the point of inoculation [10,13,19,20,[30][31][32]. Each value is the average of three independent experiments. Plates were photographed with Nicon Coolpix L320.
Each value is the average of three independent experiments.

Biofilm
When we look at the OD 570 values the greatest increase was

CFU
When the PBS medium was not taken into account, the increase in cell count in the WCW-added medium was 7.52x10 8 at ventilated runs of at most 200 rpm, while the lowest increase occurred at 0 rpm with 2.07x10 8 non-agitated media. As can be seen, as the ventilation conditions increase, the number of cells increases. However, the difference between 0 rpm and 200 rpm was only 0.3 times (Figure 3). Therefore, ventilation did not make any significant difference when evaluated at 24 hours. When the 24 th and the final run were compared, the highest difference was observed at 200 rpm shaking conditions, with the highest difference being 102 times, while the lowest difference was observed at 18 times at 0 rpm with non-shaking conditions. When we look at the difference; the cell count increased by as much as 1.2 times in 0 rpm conditions, 2.2 times in 100 rpm shaking conditions, and 97 times in 200 rpm shaking conditions. The biggest difference was realized at 10259 % at 200 rpm. This was followed by 100 rpm with 4173 % and 0 rpm with 1816 % (Figure 4).

Bacterial density (OD 600 )
When we look at the OD 600 values that we call biomass when adding WCW; again the greatest increase was at 0.859 at 100 rpm ventilated runs while the lowest rate was achieved at 0.233 at 0 rpm ventilation conditions. The difference between 0 rpm and 200 rpm was only 1.5 times. The 24 th time that the start and end of the run was compared when the time was compared to 11 times with 100 rpm shaking conditions while the lowest rate was 3.1 times with 0 rpm without agitation. As a different point of view; the highest rate was observed at 9.2 folds with 100 rpm shaking conditions, while the lowest rate was achieved with 1.4 times at 0 rpm non-shaking conditions ( Figure 5). When we look at the difference; the largest headlights were followed by 1074 % at 100 rpm followed by 748 % at 200 rpm and 314 % at 0 rpm, which is the 0-rpm condition.
Addition of WCW resulted in an increase in biomass values of up to 23-fold when the initial value of 0.038 was considered ( Figure 6).  In the agar medium, according to the controls, when WCW was added, the sliding motion was 113 %, in the swimming motion 644 %; when WCW is added according to the controls in the NB medium, it is seen that there are 244 % increase in the swarming and 122 % increase in the swimming. The biggest difference is observed in the sliding motion (644 %) in the control (agar) (Figures 7-10). If the NB medium is compared with the controls, it is seen that there are 685% increase in swarming and 221 % increase in swimming (Figures 7-10).

Discussion
WCW contributed to the formation of cfu/ml, OD 600 and biofilm, while causing a decrease in BFI values. In another published work we did, we used waste oil. When we compared the study with the whey trial, we reached higher values of cfu, OD 600 , biofilm and BFI with this study. The addition of WCW and increased ventilation (rinse) has resulted in increased value in all experimental conditions. Although the legacy BFI values also increased, this increase caused the increase to be below the control conditions.
Therefore, the addition of WCW did not have a significant effect on BFI. The highest biofilm production occurred at 200 rpm, the highest number of cells; the cell density (live + dead) at bacterial density does not support this. It makes us think that the cells have been alive without division for a long time. Only 24 hours of time are used in our work. We interpreted the results by limiting it to this time slice. However, in the case of some similar works, over time zones of 72 hours were used [6,7,33].
For this reason, it was not possible to make a comparison. These studies have shown that whey wastes may be relatively better substrates for commercial production of biofilm and management of these wastes. There are also many studies supporting this [1][2][3]6]. As a result, the addition of WCW causes a significant increase in both swarming and swimming. We did not find any study conducted by WCW in a similar way to the study we conducted in our article researches about the movement.