{"title":"Adhesion of Escherichia coli O157:H7 during freezing-induced sublethal injury and recovery on stainless steel and lettuce","authors":"Yujun Zhai, Ru Zhang, Siyuan Zhou, Hui Shi","doi":"10.1007/s11694-024-02868-1","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Freezing as an effective approach for food storage is commonly used in food industry. Notably, <i>Escherichia coli</i> O157:H7 can survive in a sublethally injured state after freezing and recover under suitable conditions, which is a great threat. This research was to investigate changes and mechanism in adhesion of sublethally injured <i>E. coli</i> O157:H7 during freezing and recovery. Adhesion on stainless steel or lettuce surface showed an increase after 16 h-freezing with sublethal ratio of more than 99%. Adhesion recovered to untreated level in recovery on lettuce while didn’t recover on stainless steel. Motility decreased as freezing time increasing, reached minimum after 12 h-freezing and didn’t repair to untreated level after recovery. Extracellular polymeric substances production and carbohydrate to protein ratio both reached minimum after 4 h-freezing and then increased in freezing-induced sublethally injured state. No significant change of LPS structural feature or gene expression was observed during injury and recovery. Besides, the expressions of flagella, pili and EPS related genes were all down-regulated during freezing while were up-regulated in recovery. The results revealed adhesion behavior of freezing-induced sublethally injured <i>E. coli</i> O157:H7, which provided theoretical basis to bacterial prevention.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":631,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Food Measurement and Characterization","volume":"18 11","pages":"9170 - 9180"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9000,"publicationDate":"2024-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Food Measurement and Characterization","FirstCategoryId":"97","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11694-024-02868-1","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Freezing as an effective approach for food storage is commonly used in food industry. Notably, Escherichia coli O157:H7 can survive in a sublethally injured state after freezing and recover under suitable conditions, which is a great threat. This research was to investigate changes and mechanism in adhesion of sublethally injured E. coli O157:H7 during freezing and recovery. Adhesion on stainless steel or lettuce surface showed an increase after 16 h-freezing with sublethal ratio of more than 99%. Adhesion recovered to untreated level in recovery on lettuce while didn’t recover on stainless steel. Motility decreased as freezing time increasing, reached minimum after 12 h-freezing and didn’t repair to untreated level after recovery. Extracellular polymeric substances production and carbohydrate to protein ratio both reached minimum after 4 h-freezing and then increased in freezing-induced sublethally injured state. No significant change of LPS structural feature or gene expression was observed during injury and recovery. Besides, the expressions of flagella, pili and EPS related genes were all down-regulated during freezing while were up-regulated in recovery. The results revealed adhesion behavior of freezing-induced sublethally injured E. coli O157:H7, which provided theoretical basis to bacterial prevention.
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This interdisciplinary journal publishes new measurement results, characteristic properties, differentiating patterns, measurement methods and procedures for such purposes as food process innovation, product development, quality control, and safety assurance.
The journal encompasses all topics related to food property measurement and characterization, including all types of measured properties of food and food materials, features and patterns, measurement principles and techniques, development and evaluation of technologies, novel uses and applications, and industrial implementation of systems and procedures.