Protocol for quantifying the germination properties of individual bacterial endospores using PySpore
STAR Protocols, 2023 Summary: PySpore is a Python program that tracks the germination of individual bacterial endospores. Here, we present a protocol for segmenting spores and quantifying the germination properties of individual bacterial endospores using PySpore.
John W. Ribis, Aimee Shen
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Survival of thermophilic spore-forming bacteria in a 90+ year old milk powder from Ernest Shackelton's Cape Royds Hut in Antarctica [PDF]
, 2000 Milk powder taken to Antarctica on Shackelton's British Antarctic Expedition in 1907 was produced in New Zealand by a roller drying process in the first factory in the world dedicated to this process. Thermophilic bacilli are the dominant contaminants of
Morgan, Hugh W. +2 more
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Targeting the Impossible: A Review of New Strategies against Endospores
Antibiotics, 2023 Endospore-forming bacteria are ubiquitous, and their endospores can be present in food, in domestic animals, and on contaminated surfaces. Many spore-forming bacteria have been used in biotechnological applications, while others are human pathogens ...
Alba Romero-Rodríguez +3 more
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Establishment of surface functionalization methods for spore-based biosensors and implementation into sensor technologies for aseptic food processing [PDF]
, 2020 Aseptic processing has become a popular technology to increase the shelf-life of packaged products and to provide non-contaminated goods to the consumers. In 2017, the global aseptic market was evaluated to be about 39.5 billion USD.
Arreola Becerra, Julio César
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Surviving on Mars: test with LISA simulator [PDF]
, 2009 We present the biological results of some experiments performed in the Padua simulators of planetary environments, named LISA, used to study the limit of bacterial life on the planet Mars.
Bertoloni, G. +4 more
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Multi-Functional Silver Nanoparticles for High-Throughput Endospore Sensing
Biosensors, 2022 In spore-forming bacteria such as Bacillus and Clostridium, the vegetative cells form highly durable hard shells called endospores inside the bacteria to survive as the growth environment deteriorates.
Shinya Ikeno +2 more
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Diversity of Bacillus-like organisms isolated from deep-sea hypersaline anoxic sediments [PDF]
, 2008 The deep-sea, hypersaline anoxic brine lakes in the Mediterranean are among the most extreme environments on earth, and in one of them, the MgCl2-rich Discovery basin, the presence of active microbes is equivocal.
Andrea M Sass +5 more
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Acta Mycologica, 2014 Ultrastructural ohservations of isolates presented in this paper revealed that conidia and hyphaae taken from 6-day old end 30-day-old cultures differed in morphology of membranous bodies and occurrence of electron opaque bodies (EOB).
Krystyna Przybył, Krystyna Idzikowska
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Electrical polarization enables integrative quality control during bacterial differentiation into spores [PDF]
, 2019 Quality control of offspring is important for the survival of cells. However, the mechanisms by which quality of offspring cells may be checked while running genetic programs of cellular differentiation remain unclear.
Sirec, Teja +4 more
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mSphere, 2017 Clostridium sordellii is an often-lethal bacterium causing human and animal disease. Crucial to the infectious cycle of C. sordellii is its ability to produce spores, which can germinate into toxin-producing vegetative bacteria under favorable conditions.
Rebecca Rabi +4 more
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