Prevotella Oxygen Niche Simulator

Microaerotolerant Airway Microbiology Workbench • Refuting 100-Year Obligate Anaerobe Dogma
UMich Empirical Model
Probe Location: 280 µm Local O₂ Tension: 6.5% Niche: Microaerobic (5-8% Optimal) Sim Clock: 02h 45m
P. melaninogenica (Viable) Active Division Phase ROS Arrest / Lysis O₂ Diffusion Gradient Probe
Colony Growth Rate
0.84 dbl/h
Population Viability
96.4%
Intracellular ROS
18.2 µM
Colony Size (CFU)
58,400
Mechanistic Insight: At 6.5% O₂, Prevotella melaninogenica activates catalase-independent alkyl hydroperoxide reductases, sustaining rapid 0.84 doublings/hr. Century-old dogma predicted instantaneous death above 0.5% O₂.
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