Directed evolution by UV-C treatment of Bacillus cereus spores.
Endospore recalcitrance
Germination defect
Heat resistance
Stress cycling
Time-lapse microscopy
UV resistance
Journal
International journal of food microbiology
ISSN: 1879-3460
Titre abrégé: Int J Food Microbiol
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 8412849
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
16 Mar 2020
16 Mar 2020
Historique:
received:
13
05
2019
revised:
02
09
2019
accepted:
03
11
2019
pubmed:
4
12
2019
medline:
11
3
2020
entrez:
3
12
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Bacterial endospores are exposed to a broad variety of sublethal and lethal stresses in the food production chain. Generally, these stresses will not completely eliminate the existing spore populations, and thus constitute a selection pressure on the spores. One stress that is frequently used in the food production chains to disinfect (food) contact surfaces is UV-C. At a wavelength of 254 nm, UV-C has germicidal properties. The aim of this research is to investigate the impact of UV-C stress on the evolution of endospore recalcitrance and germination in B. cereus. A directed evolution experiment was set up in which B. cereus was repeatedly subjected to a cycle of sporulation, sporicidal UV-C treatment, germination and outgrowth. We show here that three independent lineages of UV-C cycled B. cereus spores reproducibly acquired a 30-fold or higher increase in UV-C resistance at 164 mJ/cm
Identifiants
pubmed: 31790956
pii: S0168-1605(19)30355-1
doi: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2019.108424
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Disinfectants
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
108424Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.