- 著者
- KOICHI NAKANISHI AKINORI KOGURE KEIJI DEUCHI RITSUKO KUWANA HIROMU TAKAMATSU KIYOSHI ITO
- 出版者
- 日本防菌防黴学会
- 雑誌
- Biocontrol Science (ISSN:13424815)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.20, no.4, pp.291-295, 2015 (Released:2015-12-22)
- 参考文献数
- 9
- 被引用文献数
- 1
We previously developed a method for evaluating the heat resistance of microorganisms by measuring the transition temperature at which the coefficient of linear expansion of a cell changes. Here, we performed heat resistance measurements using a scanning probe microscope with a nano thermal analysis system. The microorganisms studied included six strains of the genus Bacillus or related genera, one strain each of the thermophilic obligate anaerobic bacterial genera Thermoanaerobacter and Moorella, two strains of heat-resistant mold, two strains of non-sporulating bacteria, and one strain of yeast. Both vegetative cells and spores were evaluated. The transition temperature at which the coefficient of linear expansion due to heating changed from a positive value to a negative value correlated strongly with the heat resistance of the microorganism as estimated from the D value. The microorganisms with greater heat resistance exhibited higher transition temperatures. There was also a strong negative correlation between the coefficient of linear expansion and heat resistance in bacteria and yeast, such that microorganisms with greater heat resistance showed lower coefficients of linear expansion. These findings suggest that our method could be useful for evaluating the heat resistance of microorganisms.