Construction of several deletion mutants for genes involved in biofilm formation and recovery of heat-injured salmonella: deltaagfA and deltabcsA mutants of salmonella enteritidis; deltaahpC, deltaahpF, and deltakatG mutants of S. typhimurium; and deltarpoE, deltarpoH, and deltarpoS mutants of S. enteritidis and S. typhimurium

• Published in: Journal of the Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University Vol. 54; no. 2
• Main Authors: Honjoh, K., Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka (Japan), Hashimoto, Y, Shimotsu, S, Wen, H.M, Kiriki, M, Naito, K, Tokugawa, M, Satake, E, Kobayashi, H, Miyamoto, T
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.10.2009
• Subjects: ALIMENTOS; BIOLOGICAL CONTAMINATION; CONTAMINACION BIOLOGICA; CONTAMINATION BIOLOGIQUE; ENVENENAMIENTO; ESPECIES DE OXIGENO REACTIVO; ESTRES OXIDATIVO; EXPRESION GENICA; EXPRESSION DES GENES; FOODS; GENE EXPRESSION; HEAT TREATMENT; http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_24947; http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_27527; http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_28318; http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_3032; http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_37481; http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_5013; http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_6051; http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_6757; http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_92379; INTOXICATION; MUTANT; MUTANTES; MUTANTS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POISONING; PRODUIT ALIMENTAIRE; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SALMONELLA; STRESS OXYDATIF; TRAITEMENT THERMIQUE; TRATAMIENTO TERMICO
• ISSN: 0023-6152

Salmonella is one of major food-poisoning bacteria. In food companies, controlling the bacterial growth is critically important to continue provision of good products to customers. At first, to study the attachment of the bacteria to food materials and final products, we focused on biofilm formation that is thought to be one of the reasons of the attachment. Thus, the genes related in formation of biofilm were also focused on, and deltaagfA and deltabcsA mutants of Salmonella enteritidis were constructed by using 2-step PCR and pKOBEGA helper plasmid. Secondary, we focused on heat-injured Salmonella after sublethal heat treatment as previously reported (Kobayashi et al., 2005). The heat-injured Salmonella showed expression of several specific genes to recover the bacterial functional state as well as other bacteria. To clarify the mechanism of the recovery, several gene mutants (deltahpC, deltaahpF, and deltakatG mutants of Salmonella typhimurium, and of deltarpoE, deltarpoH, and deltarpoS mutants of S. enteritidis and S. typhimurium) were constructed.