Heat resistance differences are common between both vegetative cells and spores of Clostridium perfringens type F isolates carrying a chromosomal vs plasmid-borne enterotoxin gene.

Autor:	Mehdizadeh Gohari I; Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA., Li J; Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA., Shivers R; Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA., Sparks SG; Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA., McClane BA; Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Applied and environmental microbiology [Appl Environ Microbiol] 2024 Oct 23; Vol. 90 (10), pp. e0091424. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Sep 18.
DOI:	10.1128/aem.00914-24
Abstrakt:	Clostridium perfringens type F isolates utilize C. perfringens enterotoxin (CPE) to cause food poisoning (FP) and nonfoodborne gastrointestinal diseases. The enterotoxin gene ( cpe ) can be located on either the chromosome or plasmids, but most FP isolates carry a chromosomal cpe (c -cpe ) gene. Our 2000 article in Applied and Environmental Microbiology (66:3234-3240, 2000, https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.66.8.3234-3240.2000https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.66.8.3234-3240.2000) determined that vegetative cells and spores of c- cpe isolates are more heat resistant than those of plasmid cpe (p- cpe ) isolates, which is favorable for their survival in improperly cooked or held food. However, that 2000 article was recently retracted (90:e00249-24, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.00249-24). To our knowledge, the 2000 article remains the only study reporting that heat resistance differences are common between both vegetative cells and spores of type F c- cpe isolates vs type F p- cpe isolates. To confirm and preserve this information in the literature, the heat resistance portion of the 2000 study has been repeated. The 2024 results reproduced the 2000 results by indicating that, relative to the surveyed type F p- cpe isolates, the vegetative cells of surveyed type F c- cpe isolates are ~2-fold more heat resistant and the spores of most surveyed c- cpe isolates are ~30-fold more heat resistant. However, consistent with several reports since our 2000 paper, one surveyed type F c- cpe isolate (which did not appreciably sporulate in 2000 but sporulated in 2024) produced spores with intermediate heat sensitivity, confirming that spores of some type F c- cpe isolates lack exceptional heat resistance.IMPORTANCE Clostridium perfringens type F food poisoning (FP), which is the second most common bacterial cause of FP, involves the production of C. perfringens enterotoxin. While the enterotoxin gene ( cpe ) can be located on either the chromosome or plasmids in type F isolates, most FP cases are caused by chromosomal cpe isolates. The current results support the conclusion that the vegetative cells and spores of type F chromosomal cpe isolates are often more heat resistant than vegetative cells and spores of type F plasmid cpe isolates. Greater heat resistance should favor the survival of the spores and vegetative cells of those chromosomal cpe isolates in temperature-abused food, which may help explain the strong association of type F chromosomal cpe strains with FP. Competing Interests: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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