贵州辣椒中腐霉利和高效氯氟氰菊酯的残留及膳食风险评估

[目的]明确贵州鲜食辣椒中腐霉利和高效氯氟氰菊酯的残留水平及其可能存在的膳食摄人风险.[方法]通过建立一种快速、简便的气相色谱检测鲜食辣椒中腐霉利和高效氯氟氰菊酯残留量的方法,采集贵州各地鲜食辣椒进行残留检测,并对不同人群的膳食暴露及风险进行了评估.[结果]贵州辣椒中腐霉利检出率为8.25％,残留量在0.01～0.62...     

Native and Engineered Probiotics: Promising Agents against Related Systemic and Intestinal Diseases

Intestinal homeostasis is a dynamic balance involving the interaction between the host intestinal mucosa, immune barrier, intestinal microecology, nutrients, and metabolites. Once homeostasis is out of balance, it will increase the risk of intestinal diseases and is also closely associated with some systemic diseases. Probiotics (Escherichia coli Nissle 1917, Akkermansia muciniphila, Clostridium butyricum, lactic acid bacteria and Bifidobacterium spp.), maintaining the gut homeostasis through direct interaction with the intestine, can also exist as a specific agent to prevent, alleviate, or cure intestinal-related diseases. With genetic engineering technology advancing, probiotics can also show targeted therapeutic properties. The aims of this review are to summarize the roles of potential native and engineered probiotics in oncology, inflammatory bowel disease, and obesity, discussing the therapeutic applications of these probiotics.     

A Complexed Crystal Structure of a Single-Stranded DNA-Binding Protein with Quercetin and the Structural Basis of Flavonol Inhibition Specificity

Single-stranded DNA (ssDNA)-binding protein (SSB) plays a crucial role in DNA replication, repair, and recombination as well as replication fork restarts. SSB is essential for cell survival and, thus, is an attractive target for potential antipathogen chemotherapy. Whether naturally occurring products can inhibit SSB remains unknown. In this study, the effect of the flavonols myricetin, quercetin, kaempferol, and galangin on the inhibition of Pseudomonas aeruginosa SSB (PaSSB) was investigated. Furthermore, SSB was identified as a novel quercetin-binding protein. Through an electrophoretic mobility shift analysis, myricetin could inhibit the ssDNA binding activity of PaSSB with an IC₅₀ of 2.8 ± 0.4 μM. The effect of quercetin, kaempferol, and galangin was insignificant. To elucidate the flavonol inhibition specificity, the crystal structure of PaSSB complexed with the non-inhibitor quercetin was solved using the molecular replacement method at a resolution of 2.3 Å (PDB entry 7VUM) and compared with a structure with the inhibitor myricetin (PDB entry 5YUN). Although myricetin and quercetin bound PaSSB at a similar site, their binding poses were different. Compared with myricetin, the aromatic ring of quercetin shifted by a distance of 4.9 Å and an angle of 31° for hydrogen bonding to the side chain of Asn108 in PaSSB. In addition, myricetin occupied and interacted with the ssDNA binding sites Lys7 and Glu80 in PaSSB whereas quercetin did not. This result might explain why myricetin could, but quercetin could not, strongly inhibit PaSSB. This molecular evidence reveals the flavonol inhibition specificity and also extends the interactomes of the natural anticancer products myricetin and quercetin to include the OB-fold protein SSB.     

食源性普罗威登斯菌的分离鉴定和耐药性研究

本文研究了食源性普罗威登斯菌在肉类食品中的的分布,以及其耐药表型与I型整合子的携带状况。本文采集了市售猪肉、鸡肉和牛肉等肉类食品,对普罗威登斯菌进行分离与鉴定;采用纸片扩散法对已分离鉴定的普罗威登斯菌进行药敏实验;利用聚合酶链式反应技术筛选携带I型整合子的菌株。结果表明,85份样品中,有38份样品检出普罗威登斯菌,检出率达44.70%。38株普罗威登斯菌中,有44.74%的分离株是多重耐药菌株,最多耐6种抗生素。有两株普罗威登斯菌携带I型整合酶,一株拉氏普罗威登斯菌携带耐药基因盒。这是在国内肉类食品分离的普罗威登斯菌中首次发现I型整合子阳性菌株,表明食品中这种携带有多重耐药的菌株有可能通过食物链向人类传播,是对人类健康造成威胁的潜在危险因素。     

Minimal effects of high-pressure treatment on Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium inoculated into peanut butter and peanut products

About 1.2 billion pounds of peanut butter are consumed annually in the United States. In 2008 to 2009, an outbreak involving Salmonella Typhimurium in peanut butter led to a recall of over 3900 products by over 200 companies. More than 700 people became sick, 100 were hospitalized, and 9 people died from this outbreak. This study examines the efficacy of high-pressure processing (HPP) to decrease S. Typhimurium American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) 53647 inoculated into peanut butter and model systems. The viability of S. Typhimurium in peanut butter stored at room temperature was investigated. A culture of S. Typhimurium (6.88 log CFU/g) was inoculated into peanut butter. Following 28 d at 20 °C there was a 1.23-log reduction. Approximately 10(6) to 10(7) CFU/g S. Typhimurium were inoculated into 4 brands of peanut butter, 3 natural peanut butters and peanut flour slurries at 2, 5, and 10% peanut flour protein in peanut oil and in distilled water. All were treated at 600 MPa for 5 min at 45 °C. While significant differences were found between natural peanut butter and peanut protein mixtures, the reduction was <1.0 log. The peanut flour/oil mixtures had a 1.7, 1.6, and 1.0-log reduction from HPP (2, 5, and 10% protein, respectively) whereas peanut flour/water mixtures had a 6.7-log reduction for all protein levels. Oil had a protective effect indicating HPP may not help the microbial safety of water-in-oil food emulsions including peanut butter. Practical Application: There have been multiple outbreaks of foodborne illness involving peanut butter products. This study looks at the potential use of high-pressure processing to reduce the bacteria that may be in peanut butter.     

Growth, survival and inactivation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus strains of various origin in the presence of ethanol

The influence of ethanol on the behaviour of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus strains was evaluated throughout this study. Strains of different origin were used: collection, clinical and industrial strains were selected. Concentrations of ethanol from 0 to 20% (v/v) were evaluated by automated optical density measurements and by enumeration. When growth conditions were observed, predictive microbiology models were used to assess quantitatively for the ethanol effect. Primary modelling of kinetics was performed to determine growth rate values; secondary modelling was performed on these growth rates as influenced by ethanol, and minimum inhibitory concentrations of ethanol were determined for each strain. Staphylococcus aureus strains were more resistant to ethanol than P. aeruginosa strains, in growth conditions as well as in inactivation conditions. Furthermore, clinical S. aureus strains were more resistant than the collection strain. The method was promising for management of microbiological safety in cosmetics.     

Polyphasic characterization of two microbial consortia with wide dechlorination spectra for chlorophenols

Two soil-free anaerobic dechlorinating cultures (3-CP and 35-DCP) were enriched from a pentachlorophenol (PCP)-to-phenol dechlorinating soil-dependent culture, using 3-chlorophenol (3-CP) and 3,5-dichlorophenol (3,5-DCP) as specific respective substrates, and characterized polyphasically. Physiological characterization indicated that the 3-CP and 35-DCP cultures had similar features, but with some variations. Both cultures utilized formate or acetate preferably as optimum electron donors for reductive dechlorination, and they shared similar patterns of dechlorination spectra for chlorophenols ranging from mono-CPs to a tetra-CP, with preferred dechlorination pathways in the ortho and meta positions. Alternative electron acceptors such as NO(3)(-) but not SO(4)(2-) inhibited the dechlorination activity in both cultures, while amorphous iron oxides (FeOOH) suppressed dechlorination activity only in the 35-DCP culture. Complete inhibition of dechlorination was observed in both cultures supplemented with chloramphenicol and vancomycin. The addition of 2-bromoethanesulfonate resulted in delayed dechlorination activity in the 35-DCP culture but not in the 3-CP culture; molybdate did not exert any inhibitory effect in either culture. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA genes confirmed that the two cultures exhibited similar bacterial species but with varied responsible dechlorinators. Dehalobacter spp. were the likely dechlorinators in the 3-CP culture versus Sulfurospirillum spp. in the 35-DCP culture, with Clostridium and Clostridium-like spp. as candidate dechlorinators in both cultures.     

Quantitative analysis of phenolic compounds in Chinese hawthorn (Crataegus spp.) fruits by high performance liquid chromatography–electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry

Eleven major phenolic compounds (hyperoside, isoquercitrin, chlorogenic acid, ideain, epicatechin, two procyanidin (PA) dimers, three PA trimers and a PA dimer-hexoside) were quantified in the fruits of 22 cultivars/origins of three species of the Chinese hawthorn (Crataegus spp.) by HPLC–ESI-MS-SIR. Hyperoside (0.1–0.8 mg/g dry mass [DM]), isoquercitrin (0.1–0.3 mg/g DM), chlorogenic acid (0.2–1.6 mg/g DM), epicatechin (0.9–11.7 mg/g DM), PA B2 (0.7–12.4 mg/g DM), PA dimer II (0.1–1.5 mg/g DM), PA trimer I (0.1–2.7 mg/g DM), PA trimer II (0.7–6.9 mg/g DM), PA trimer III (0.01–1.2 mg/g DM) and a PA dimer-hexoside (trace–1.1 mg/g DM) were detected in all the samples. Ideain (0.0–0.7 mg/g DM) was found in all the samples except Crataegus scabrifolia. Significant correlations between the contents of individual PA aglycons were observed (r > 0.9, P < 0.01). A strong correlation between flavonols was also shown (r = 0.71, P < 0.01). Fruits of Crataegus pinnatifida var. major had higher contents of PAs but lower contents of flavonols compared with Crataegus brettschneideri. The fruits of C. scabrifolia contained the highest level of PA dimer-hexoside, which was present in trace amounts in the fruits of C. pinnatifida.     

包装饮用水中铜绿假单胞菌的耐药分析及同源性研究

采用国标方法对湖北省地区15家包装饮用水生产企业的水源水、各个生产环节水样及包装容器等共116份样品进行铜绿假单胞菌的分离和鉴定,将分离得到的48株阳性菌株通过梅里埃药敏鉴定卡进行耐药性分析,同时利用基质辅助激光解吸电离-飞行时间质谱（MALDI-TOF MS）进行同源性研究。结果表明,48株水源性铜绿假单胞菌中有6株耐药菌株,耐药水平总体较低,而同一来源的铜绿假单胞菌亲缘关系较近,提示铜绿假单胞菌的污染主要来自于水源。     

我国包装饮用水中铜绿假单胞菌检验方法标准问题分析及其质量控制探讨

铜绿假单胞菌是包装饮用水中污染风险较大的一种条件致病菌。科学规范的检验方法标准能够为包装饮用水中铜绿假单胞菌的监测提供良好的技术保障。GB 8538-2016 《食品安全国家标准 饮用天然矿泉水检验方法》是我国包装饮用水中铜绿假单胞菌检测主要依据的食品安全标准。本文对该标准“57 铜绿假单胞菌”部分存在的问题进行了分析,对方法涉及的培养基、试剂以及滤膜进行质量控制的必要性和质控方法进行了阐述,以期为完善包装饮用水中铜绿假单胞菌的检验工作提供参考。