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
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

108424

Informations 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.

Auteurs

Katrien Begyn (K)

Research Unit Food Microbiology and Food Preservation (FMFP-UGent), Department of Food Technology, Safety and Health, Part of Food2Know, Faculty Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.

Tom Dongmin Kim (TD)

Laboratory of Food Microbiology, Department of Microbial and Molecular systems (M(2)S), Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

Marc Heyndrickx (M)

ILVO - Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Technology and Food Science, Unit - Food Safety, Melle, Belgium; Department of Pathology, Bacteriology and Avian Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium.

Chris Michiels (C)

Laboratory of Food Microbiology, Department of Microbial and Molecular systems (M(2)S), Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Leuven Food Science and Nutrition Research Centre (LFoRCe), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

Abram Aertsen (A)

Laboratory of Food Microbiology, Department of Microbial and Molecular systems (M(2)S), Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address: abram.aertsen@kuleuven.be.

Andreja Rajkovic (A)

Research Unit Food Microbiology and Food Preservation (FMFP-UGent), Department of Food Technology, Safety and Health, Part of Food2Know, Faculty Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.

Frank Devlieghere (F)

Research Unit Food Microbiology and Food Preservation (FMFP-UGent), Department of Food Technology, Safety and Health, Part of Food2Know, Faculty Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. Electronic address: frank.devlieghere@ugent.be.

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